A Residential Autonomous College affiliated to University of Calcutta Re-accredited by NAAC with ‘Grade A’ College with Potential for Excellence Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, PIN: 711202 Website: www.vidyamandira.ac.in Email:
[email protected] Phone: 033-26549181, 033-26549632; Fax: 033-26541123 Second Convocation Date: 10 December 2014 Principal’s Report (1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014) Content Inception of the College and Its Brief History : Swami Vivekananda, after establishing the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, wanted to revive the past glories of our motherland through an education which would combine in it the best elements of the oriental and the occidental cultures, the sacred and the secular, the material and the spiritual. With a view to giving shape to Swamiji’s comprehensive scheme of education, the authorities of the Mission started this college, Vidyamandira in 1941 under the auspices of the Saradapitha, a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission, as an Intermediate Arts College. The college was affiliated to Calcutta University. The college was upgraded to a three-year degree college with effect from July 1960. Post-graduate teaching was introduced from the academic session 2006-2007. In 2010, the college was adjudged by the UGC as a ‘College with Potential for Excellence’. In 2010 again, the college was conferred upon the status ‘Autonomous’ by the UGC and the State Government. In 2013, the college was re-accredited by NAAC with Grade A. To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary the college established ‘Swami Vivekananda Research Centre’ in 2013-14 session to run PhD programmes and other research activities.