Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College

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Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College, better known as BJB College, Bhubaneswar, is a reputed institute of Higher Seconday and UnderGraduate studies in Orissa, India. Along with Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, this college has produced some of the principal builders and administrators of modern Orissa.

1 Description
2 History
3 Departments
4 Notable Alumni
5 External Links

[edit] Description

The college is located over an area of 28.2 acres of land, near Kalpana Square, Bhubaneswar, on the Highway connecting Cuttack and Puri. Situated within a distance of 3 kms from the airport (Biju Pattnaik Air Port, Bhubaneswar) and 2 kms from the Railway Station, the institute blends a busy city area and a serene 'Gurukul'.

The Higher Secondary or the 10+2 courses of the college are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa. Apart from Higher Secondary courses in Science, Arts and Commerce stream, the college offers Three Year Bachelor’s Degree courses in Humanities, Science and Commerce streams in 22 different subjects.

The college has hostel facilty (for Boys), a Library containing more than 60,000 books and 600 periodicals (as of 2005) and off course an able faculty & brilliant students. No doubt, this college has earned the reputation of attracting the largest number of meritorious students to its various programmes of study from all over the state and outside. The number of students from the college securing ranks among the States's top-20, in the annual Higher Secondary Examinations every year, is a testimony to the college's high standards maintained over the years.

[edit] History

The college came into existence in 1957 through an initiative of the Government of Orissa, in connection with the establishment of the state's new capital in Bhubaneswar in 1950 and the consequent need of quality man-power in the region. This institute is named after Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar Bhramarabara Ray, the rebel extraordinary in the history of pre-independent India, specifically known for his pivotal role in the mutiny 'Paaika Bidroh', that happened in 1817 in Khurda, Orissa.

Initially, the college was providing education up to Intermediate level with an intake capacity of only 64 students in Science and the same number in Humanities. It was upgraded to a full-fledged degree college in the year 1962. Commerce stream was introduced in 1976. It was enlisted under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act in the year 1972 and under 12 (b) in the same year.

It was an affiliated college of Utkal University till the session 1998-99. It has been functioning as an autonomous institution following the grant of autonomy by the UGC in 1999. The College was placed in the A Grade in the Year 2004 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous body of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

'Bayakaka', initially an informal body of rebels, was established in a room of science block on 10th September 1979. It was inspired by ideals of JaiPrakash Narayan who had earlier given the nod to go ahead and believed in ushering in an utopian state. It played a key role in solving Assam student agitation and had involved in talks with Kashmiri militants. The body deliberately kept away from political field.

Over the years the college has grown in terms of its infrastructure, student enrolment and subject options. It has emerged as a premier multi-faculty co-educational institution of the state.

[edit] Departments

The college runs three streams, namely: Science, Arts, Commerce.

[edit] Faculty of Science

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Anthropology, Botany, Zoology, Statistics, Computer Science

[edit] Faculty Of Arts

Anthropology, English, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Hindi, Mathematics, Oriya, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, Indian music, Sanskrit