With an aim to provide a platform for higher education to the financially weaker peoples of Bankura it started its journey on 1 September 1948 with 100[3] students (boys) and 6[3] teachers of intermediate science.

[4] Admission to the first-year undergraduate classes are usually held after the publication of the result of the Higher Secondary Examination under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and is based strictly on merit through open counseling procedure.

Currently 16 different honours courses in Arts, Science and Commerce are being taught in the college.

The college provides opportunity for Spoken English classes with the help of BBC Bankura Branch.

The college also provides opportunities to pursue different courses with the help of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India from March 2009 added category This article about a university or college in West Bengal, India is a stub.