Murari Chand College

Since then it has played an important role in the educational, cultural, and political spheres of Greater Sylhet.

[1] M C College was established on 27 June 1892 by a local nobleman, Raja Girish Chandra Roy of Roynagar, Sylhet with four teachers and 18 students.

The college was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Murari Chand Roy.

The original college building collapsed in the 1897 Assam earthquake, of which Chandra himself was a victim.

In 1916, Syed Abdul Majid upgraded Murari Chand College's status to first grade degree level and laid the school's foundation stone in Thackeray Hills alongside William Sinclair Marris in 1921.

[2][3][4][5] Abdul Khaliq Choudhury of Bijli (1886-1948) was the first Muslim student of the college.

He was a member of the Assam council from 1921 to 1936 as well as the South Sylhet Local Board and Dhaka University Syndicate.

The botanical garden is run by the botany department and is the only of its kind in the Sylhet Division.

The MCDS won first place amongst the Sylhet Division in Democracy International's Debate Championship 2018.