This partition led to the migration of a huge number of displaced people to the Dooars areas.

Higher education for the children of these uprooted poverty-stricken people was of utmost necessity to change their fortune.

In 2018, West Bengal state government announced the decision to upgrade the Alipurduar College as a full-fledged university.

[4] Finally, Alipurduar University was formally established by an Act of the West Bengal legislature.

[7] University offers PG courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, Geography, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, and Zoology.