Memari College : A Glimpse: Memari College, a NAAC Accredited College, is one of the most reputed institutes of higher learning in West Bengal. It was out of the ardent and dedicated zeal of the educationalists of region and almost necessity of higher education for local and surrounding students that the College was established in the last phase of the last century. The College stands on a calm and quiet place encompassed by greenish natural boundaries far from the din and bustle of the semi- urban life. At present the physical infrastructure is spread over 11 (eleven) acre of beautiful campus covering state-of-the-art arrangement for creating a rich academic environment. The college has its own play ground and pond within its premises. The history of its establishment had undergone many protracted phases. Having suffered for about four decades of bittersweet quandaries, the college was born and began its journey on and from 16 December, 1981 in the nearby Memari Vidyasagar Memorial Institution, Unit-II, with only 51 students in B.A. Course. However, overcoming the initial hurdles of the construction of its dedicated building, the College was shifted to its own building in May 1985. The construction of building was accelerated with the financial assistance from U.G.C., the Govt. of West Bengal and generous donations by the local business community as well as common people, teaching, non-teaching & students of the College. Now it caters to the educational needs of more than 5300 students in three main Streams: Arts, Commerce & Science as well as professional one, like Computer Science. Having passed through ups and downs, the College has now attained its glorious position with prestigious NAAC Accreditation. Memari College : Vision & Mission: The College is highly successful in spreading higher education in this remote rural economically backward region where there is no college within a periphery of around 21(twenty one) Km. As a result, a large number of students, along with female candidates who had no opportunity to avail themselves of entering into the corridors of higher education from the families of landless farmers, daily wage earners and so on, may afford to be initiated into the higher education from the College. The College encourages the meritorious students from minority communities, Scheduled Castes & Tribes to get admission in this College. The College is motivated to encourage and spread higher education amongst the youth and thereby enlighten and enabling them to develop a scientific approach to life immune from prejudice and allied ills of the society. The College has achieved a dignified niche in the varsity by virtue of catering to the needs of the people in respect of education, training, employment access and equal opportunity in courses of its judicious functioning. Since we are always aware of our mission: To empower the local youth to seek employment and to go for Post-graduate education To make the youth students law-abiding and useful citizens of the country and infuse in them a sense of satisfaction for the betterment of the fellow To nurture the students educationally, mentally and physically To spread education with an emphasis on female empowerment and the minority sections 1 To develop the students in non-core options and entrepreneurial skills Resource mobilization and generation of employment opportunities for the students and ex-students Memari College : Location Memari College is located (23°9´55´´N and 88°9´9´´E) at Memari (a semi-urban town of Burdwan District), on Howrah-Burdwan Main-line by train. The place is 75 Km. away from Kolkata and by the side of National Highway 2 by road as well. It is only 25 Km. away from Burdwan (the Head Quarter of the Purba Bardhaman District) and is well connected by road and railways. It possesses various road linkages within the radius of 30 Km. with noteworthy villages and ganjas. Memari College : Affiliation Memari College is a Non-Govt (Govt. aided) College and affiliated to the University of Burdwan. The College is registered in UGC under the Act 2(f) & 12(B). It is accredited by NAAC. Memari College : Courses Initially, the College had started with Arts Stream only. But the College is not concerned only about three ‘R’. It is our motto to inculcate the Rationality amongst the students for their Creative Reflection by Resourceful Faculty members and non-teaching staff. So, considering the changing scenario of the educational environment the college introduced new courses such as Commerce, Science, etc. Core Courses Arts, Commerce and Science Streams are taught in General & Honours Courses. Honours Courses: Arts : Bengali, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sanskrit, Mass Communication & Journalism, Music Commerce : Accountancy Science : Mathematics, Physics, Botany, Chemistry, Nutrition & Computer Science General Courses : Arts : Bengali, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Political Science, Sanskrit Commerce : As per the CBCS syllabus framed by the University of Burdwan Science : Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Zoology & Botany Professional Course: 2 Honours in Computer Science Non-Core Courses: Mobile repairing, Excel datasheet making, Entrepreneurial development; Agro-mechanical instrument repairing; two & three wheeler repairing, etc. under the financial assistance by MSME, Govt. of India. Memari College : Admission procedure: Online Application Process: All eligible candidates are required to register online through internet. Registration includes entries of student details. Successful registration means creation of registration id and password. The candidate needs to enter all the details in the form online. After the completely filled-up form is “submitted” by the candidate, the system will automatically generate candidate e-challan/offline challan for payment of registration fees (Rs 200/- for Honours and Rs 100/- for General courses). For Date of registration, please follow the notice in the College website. If a candidate has paid the application fees online/offline but the “payment status” is seen to be “unpaid” s/he may see their Confirmation of Payment on the list published at college on 02.07.2018 positively. Even if the candidate is not on the list published on 02.07.2018, s/he is asked to approach the college office with the challan slip within 04.07.2018. Merit list will be generated on the basis of category, honours subjects, and intake capacity. All reserved candidates shall be considered in unreserved list as well as reserved list. If such a candidate be found eligible for admission in both lists and he/she gets admission, he/she will be considered to have filled in the unreserved list. Eligibility: All the candidates who have passed H.S. Examination or equivalent (10+2) Examination in the year(s): 2015/2016/2017/2018 are eligible for applying for General Courses (Arts, Science and Commerce) in the College. The eligibility for the Honours subjects are given below: HONOURS Subjects Minimum Total Marks in Minimum Marks (H.S./10+2) H.S./10+2 in Subject All Subjects 45% marks of Best 5 45% marks in H.S./10+2 (except Mass Communication, (Honours Subject) Physics, Computer Science, Music and Economics) Physics 45% marks of Best 5 Physics: 45% Mathematics: 30% Computer Science 45% marks of Best 5 Mathematics: 30% Mass Communication 45% marks of Best 5 Minimum 45% marks in any one Language Paper in H.S./10+2 Music 40% marks of Best 5 - Economics 45% marks of Best 5 Economics: 45% Mathematics: 30% 3 N.B. Students who had already taken admission in the college in the last session and have their Registration done at the University of Burdwan last year but did not fill-up their Examination Form for the Semester I may apply again online for Admission in the college in this session. Eligibility for students from Vocational Stream(s): As per the B.U. Rules a student passing 10+2 level with: (a) Vocational Engineering Technology (with pass marks in Mathematics) is eligible for admission to Computer Science (Honours) and to Pure Science/Arts (General); (b) Vocational Engineering Technology (without pass marks in Mathematics/without the subject Math.) is eligible for admission to B.A. (General); (c) Vocational Agriculture is eligible to get admission in B.A./B.Sc. (General); (d) Vocational Business and Commerc is eligible to B.Com. (General) and B.A. (General); (e) Vocational Business and Commerc (with pass marks in Business, Mathematics and Statistics) is eligible to B.Com. (Honours); (f) Vocational Home Science is eligible to get admission in B.A. (General) only. Calculation of Grade Point: The admission will strictly be on merit basis. The merit list will be prepared on the basis of Grade Points obtained by the applicants. The procedure for calculating Grade Point is given below: For Honours Course: (Except for applying into honours subjects: Mass Communication and Journalism and Music) Grade Point = [Total marks obtained in Best FIVE papers in H.S./10+2 level (except Environmental Studies) + marks obtained in the subject applied for Honours Course] * In case s/he has one language paper in H.S. Exam. (10+2), the marks of the same will be doubled. If the full marks of a subject is not 100, the same will be converted to a proportion of 100. **In case the applicant student did not have Computer Science as a H.S./10+2 equivalent subject, the candidate needs to add their Mathematics marks from H.S./10+2 equivalent in its place. If the applicant student had Computer Application as 10+2 equivalent subject, the marks of Computer Application will not be taken into any consideration. Only Computer Science marks from 10+2 is to be added/considered. Note: It is customary for the applicant student to have the specific Honours subject that s/he is applying Honours for in his/her chosen H.S.