With the partition of India based on the religious line, many people came over to the border district erstwhile West Dinajpur and Raiganj provided many of them with food and shelter.

At this point in time, few educationalists and social thinkers of this small town felt the necessity of building a college for higher education in this backward region.

Everyone in this meeting unanimously decided to establish a college for higher education and appealed to the peoples to donate land and money for this purpose.

[7] This faculty consists of the departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer & Information Science, Statistics, Microbiology, Sericulture, Botany, Zoology, and Management (Business Administration).

This faculty consists of the departments of Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, Education, Geography, Sociology, Commerce, and Law.

For admission in the doctoral and postgraduate level courses, one has to take an entrance examination either conducted by the university or by the national agency like CSIR, UGC etc.