Originally envisioned by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the planning was executed by Ajit Kumar Panja, the then state health minister.

7th batch onwards, the students started their premedical course at NBMC campus, Sushrutanagar, their own place.

From 2013 onwards Undergraduate seats had been increased by 50, which made the annual undergraduate students intake to 150 but from the year 2017 the newly added 50 seats were slashed by the MCI on grounds of lack of infrastructure but again in the year 2018, intake was increased to 150.

North Bengal Medical College & Hospital is located in Sushrutanagar, locally known as Noukaghat, to the west of Siliguri, connected to the town by the 3rd Mahananda bridge.

Sushrutanagar, Darjeeling, (situated at Thiknikata Gram Panchayet), otherwise referred to as ‘medical’ by the local people, is more or less 5 km from proper Siliguri.

Starting from the 2003 admission batch, it is formally affiliated to the newly formed West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Notable Conferences hosted/will be hosted by the institution includes- The First Numescon was in 2015 and saw participation from all over India as well as neighbouring countries as Bangladesh.

Umami, Whistling Woods, Intoxication, Doctors Chamber, Bipolar and Phonation are the most famous in the campus.