[1] A couple of months after Independence, on 2 November 1947, a clan of eminent personalities, educationists and visionaries of Naihati (Barrackpore Subdivision, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal) sat together and came in agreement of setting up a college after the name of Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the litterateur who gave the country the National Song.

In June 1948, the college was shifted to its present premises, situated within a furlong from Bankim Chandra's ancestral home at Kantalpara (at the eastern side of Naihati railway station), as the then Executive Committee purchased the present plot of land from "Medland Bose & Co." a labour-contractor firm that used to use the land as a transit point for coolies destined mainly to the north-east tea gardens.

Honours & General) undergraduate studies in as many as Twenty one (21) subjects namely, Bengali, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Journalism & Mass Communication, Physical Education, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Applications, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Electronics, Economics and Commerce.

[4] Science faculty consists of the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Applications, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Electronics, and Economics.

It has provision for futuristic development and upgradation of services through computerization and storage of quality reference material in digital-text formats.