It offers undergraduate and postgraduate level courses in various arts , commerce and science subjects.

Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World's Religions.

Arts and Commerce faculty consists of departments of Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Geography, Political Science, Philosophy, Journalism & Mass Communication, Sociology, and Commerce.

Apart from the chemical ingredients available at the lab, other contents such as Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide were procured from market, and the concoction was prepared meeting WHO specifications.

The sanitiser is named Sparsho (touch) and the bottles are distributed for free among the locals[5][6]