Bongaigaon College

Bongaigaon College is a higher educational institution in Bongaigaon, Assam, India. It was founded in August 1964. A group of visionaries contemplated starting an institution of higher learning in the educationally backward area of Assam on 8 July 1964. Bongaigaon College is the translated version of a lofty ideal. The college is 200 km from Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. Affiliated to Gauhati University, the most reputed university of the North East, Bongaigaon College can easily stake a claim to be one of the premier colleges in Assam. The College with a campus spanning 8.46 hectors, offers +2, undergraduate — both general and Major and postgraduate programmes apart from offering a vocational programme in Functional English at the undergraduate level.Bongaigaon College has a mission statement to offer an interactionist and value-based education in view of representation from ethnic and community spaces in its rolls, stressing on the dialogic culturalism in approaching academic and intellectual areas disseminated in the classrooms. Moreover, the college perceives that the academic domain should be supported by consciousness enhancing extracurricular activities testing and enriching social and cultural sensibility of students.With its 2800-strong student workforce and almost three scores of teachers, the college is committed to upholding the academic values it has scripted in its vision statement, addressing demands of humanist education and contemporary professional exigencies.HistoryThe college had its beginning thanks to a concerted enterprise and initiative of a host of starry-eyed, socially conscious individuals, most notably late Sitanath Brahmachowdhury, ex-M.P. and ex-president of Assam Sahitya Sabah, the late Bhabeswar Chowdhury, and the late Damodar Mahanta. The college was accorded the status of deficit grants-in-aid in 1972 by the Government of Assam.