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রায়গঞ্জ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় | |
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Former name | Raiganj College (University College) |
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| Motto | tamaso mā jyotirgamaya |
Motto in English | Lead me from darkness to light |
| Type | PublicState university |
| Established | 3 February 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-02-03) |
Academic affiliations | |
| Budget | ₹30.21 crore (US$3.6 million) (FY2023–24 est.)[1] |
| Chancellor | Governor of West Bengal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dipak Kumar Ray(acting) |
Academic staff | 118 (2025)[1] |
| Students | 7,480 (2025)[1] |
| Undergraduates | 5,137 (2025)[1] |
| Postgraduates | 1,077 (2025)[1] |
| 1,266 (2025)[1] | |
| Location | ,, India 25°36′18.31″N88°7′42.92″E / 25.6050861°N 88.1285889°E /25.6050861; 88.1285889 |
| Campus | Urban 12.36 acres (5.00 ha) |
| Website | raiganjuniversity |
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Raiganj University is a public state university inRaiganj,Uttar Dinajpur district,West Bengal,India.[2] It is the oldest higher educational institution in theNorth Dinajpur district. This institution was elevated to the status of a public state university on 3 February 2015 by an Act of theWest Bengal legislature[3] after functioning as a constituent college of theUniversity of North Bengal for a long time. This university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral level courses.
With the partition ofIndia 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. The education of their children was a necessity for these uprooted people to change their fortune. 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. Late Sukumar Guha and Late Nirmal Chandra Ghosh played a very important role at this time. Because of their effort, a meeting was organized among the local eminent and interested persons to establish a college for higher education. 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. The college was then formally opened in 1948 as an affiliated college of theUniversity of Calcutta.[4]
With the establishment of theUniversity of North Bengal in the year 1962 at the northern part ofWest Bengal, the affiliation of the college changed from theUniversity of Calcutta to theUniversity of North Bengal. Different Honours degree courses were introduced gradually. In the year 1968,University of North Bengal took the decision to take over the Raiganj College as a university college with all its assets and liabilities. Subsequently, the name of the Raiganj College was changed to Raiganj College (University College).[citation needed]
In the year 2013,Chief Minister of West BengalMamata Banerjee visitedRaiganj for an administrative meeting and announced that Raiganj College (University College) will be upgraded to a full-fledged university. Later the university was established on 3 February 2015 as per the Raiganj University Act.[5][6]
Raiganj University is located in the heart ofRaiganj town, the district headquarter ofUttar Dinajpur. It currently has only one permanent campus. Area of main campus is 25 acres.
The Vice-chancellor of Raiganj University is the chief executive officer of the university. Prof. Dipak Kumar Roy is the current Vice-chancellor (officiating/in-charge) of the university.
| List of All Vice-Chancellors | |
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| No. | Name |
| 1. | Prof. Anil Bhuimali |
| 2. | Prof. Sanchari Roy Mukherjee |
| 3. | Prof. Jyotsna Kumar Mandal |
| 4. | Prof. Dipak Kumar Roy (Present) |
| Faculty | Departments |
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| Science and Management | |
| Arts, Commerce & Law |
The university follows the government policy for admission. Pass in the higher secondary (10+2) examination is necessary for admission to the undergraduate courses of the Raiganj University. 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 likeCSIR,UGC etc.
Raiganj University is recognized under Section 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act.[7] It hasnot received accreditation fromNAAC andNBA.[8]
