University of Gour Banga

Pakuahat Degree College

college profile:
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 Name of the College        : PAKUAHAT DEGREE COLLEGE 
 Year of establishment      : 1997 
 Address                    : P.O.-Pakuahat, Dist.-Malda ,West Bengal, Pin- 732 138
 Name of the Principal	    : Dr. A Bhattacharya 
 Phone                      : 03511 (953511)-266410 
 Fax No.                    : 03511 (953511)-266410  
 
Subject offered with approved in take capacity:
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 Honours Courses(B.A.)
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   History		: 75 
   Sociology		: 75 
   Bengali		: GO 
   English		: 4O 
   Political Science	: 3O 
   Geography		: 15
 
 General Courses (B.A.)
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 Bengali English History Sociology Political Science Geography: Intake capacity of Geography
 General course per year 35 and normally 150 per section of each subject other than Geography. 

 Faculty Position:
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         Name 			Designation 			Department 	Date of joining
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 1.  Dr. A Bhattacharya 	Principal 		---- 			04.1.2000 
 2.  John Breakmas Tirkey 	Lecturer 		Sociology 		01.03.1999 
 3.  Dr.Sibasish Banerjee    	Sec.GradeLecturer 	Political Science 	07.09.1999 
     (On lien upto 8.4.2009) 
 4.  Dr. Md. Mansur Rahman 	Reader 			History 		8.10.1999 
     (On lien upto 11.4.2009) 
 5.  Dr,Pareshnath Das 		Senior Lecturer 	Bengali 		24.3.2001 
 6.  Raja Basu 			Lecturer 		English 		12.11.2005 
 7.  Bodhan Sarkar 		Lecturer 		History 		19.08.2008 
 8.  Rima Sinha 		Part time Lecturer	History 		09.11.2002  
 9.  Manoj Kumar Biswas 	Part time Lecturer 	History 		02.08.2005 
 10. Goutam Biswas              Part time Lecturer    	Political Science 	01.11.2006 
 11. Sushanta Pramanik		Part time Lecturer	Political Science 	01.11.2006 
 12. Anup Sarkar 		Full time Lecturer	Bengali 		17.09.2007 
 13. Pampi Saha 		Part time Lecturer	English 		13.13.2006 
 14. Sibesh Dutta 		Part time Lecturer	English 		01.08.2008 
 15. Md. Abikul Mandal 		Part time Lecturer	Sociology 		01.12.2007 
 16. Samir Biswas 		Part time Lecturer	Sociology 		19.08.2008 
 17. Debarati Sarkar 		Full time Lecturer	Geography 		13.08.2008 
 18. Moumita Ghosh 		Part time Lecturer	Geography 		13.08.2008 
 19. Sarbari Sinha Roy 		Part time Lecturer	Geography 		13.08.2008 
 20. Manitosh Biswas 		Part time Lecturer	Political Science 	19.08.2008 
 21. Mst.Maksura Khatun 	Part time Lecturer	Political Science 	19.08.2008 


one part time Lecturer (Temporary) in English and Sociology (each Subject) and two Temporary 
Part time Lecturers in Bengali will be appointed with in first week of September 2008. 
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Infrastructure:
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 Laboratories : The college has a Geography Laboratory.
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 Equipment worth Rs.1.00 Lakh- Nil
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 Facilities available to the faculty and students:
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 No of class rooms: 3 hall rooms with comfortable seating capacity of 250 students in each 
room. 8 medium size classrooms with seating capacity of 130 students in each room. A girls' 
Common Room with indoor playing instruments and attached toilet. A Boys' Common Room with 
indoor playing instruments. A students gents toilet. A staff gents toilet. A staff female
toilet. A teachers Room with drinking water facility and individual teacher's locker and 
one Bengali and English newspapers. A NCC and a NSS Room. A Store Room. Two Office Rooms.
Two Library Rooms. A Principal's Room. A bye cycle stand. A students Union Room . A 
privately managed canteen. A Boys' students Hostel with 40 seats capacity. Two Computers 
with printers and one Xerox machine. 

Library Resources :
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The College Library has 5130 books of which number of History books 1300 Bengali(Subject)
books 1500 English (Subject) 750 sociology 500 Political Science 800 Geography 150 Reference
100 a Environment 29 and Library Science 1. 20 academic and professional journals available 
regularly. 
 
NCC/ NSS :
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The College NC unit under 11 Bengal BN NCC, Malda. College Coy No.3/il with NCC Cadets of 
of 160 (B.A.lst year Boys-43 + Girls 17=60,B.A. 2 year Boys 50 + Girls 10=60 B.A. 3 year Boys 
40 + Girls 0=40 is the break of year wise boys and girls present strength of NCC Cadets.) 
Dr. Sibasish Banerjee who is on lien, ANO is presently not looking NCC and in his place 
Sri Sushanta Pnimanik is working as Care taker ANO. the College has a NSS Unit of 100 
volunteers for each year and Dr.Pareshnath Das is working as programme Officer of NSS Unit. 

 Accreditation (NAAC) status- Nil
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 Student profile:  2007-08
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 Total number of students Hons. 436 and General 1009 total - 1445 
 

 %  SC      % ST	% Male		% Femail	% Minorities	% Bpl
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 70.2 	     9.8	71.62		28.37		4.70		 -
 
 Good practices of the college:
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Academic atmosphere is good for obedient and disciplined nature of the students. Social 
acceptability of the college for NSS works at the college surrounding areas. The college
organizes a function with the participation of the students employees management and local
people on its foundation day (4th September) of every year which helps to develop necessary
social base of the college. Teachers are sincere in indentifying backward students and 
giving their proper guidance. Majority students are SC and ST and Pakuahat is SC dominated
area. The five blocks namely Bamangola Habibpur,Old Malda ,Tapan and Gazole are the main 
suppliers of the students of the college and all these blocks are SC,ST dominated.The teachers
and students are doing survey and filed works in localities in the light of socio economic 
and cultural aspects. Regular students Union activities with the help of the teachers and 
employees. College Magazine publishes annually. Annual sports. Annual freshers' welcome. 
Annual cultural function. Debate. Practical Mock Youth Parliament. 


Any other achievement/ Features/remarks:
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The college students achieved remarkable success in games and sports. The college even 
participated in state level football championship and was champion and runners up in district
Pinter colleges (non-govt.) foot ball competition . The college foot ball team for lastS years 
consisted of mainly Scheduled Tribes students. The college won 1st prize at Regional level 
(Region VII consisting of Malda, U & D Dinajpur)of youth Parliament competition organized by 
Parliamentary affairs Deptt. Govt. of west Bengal. 
Signature of the Principal with date