Fakir Chand College stands today in Diamond Harbour in the southern part of West Bengal.

Jagadish Chandra Halder, a local businessman, set up Fakir Chand College in the memory of his father.

In 1969, Prof. Hari Rakhal Biswas took over as principal and he introduced a sound system of administration, heralding a new era in the history of the college.

[1] The college library was established by Jagadish Chandra Halder, in memory of his father, in 1948 at Diamond Harbour Boys School.

In 1952, it was moved to the ground floor of the present main campus of Fakir Chand College.

It now has a large collection of books, reference materials, and journals of arts, science, and commerce subjects and photocopying facilities.