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The college is named
after Rev. C.F. Andrews, a celebrated saint, philanthropist, a
trustworthy friend of the downtrodden and a dedicated warrior of
Indian Freedom Struggle. He was also an eminent disciple of Mahatma
Gandhi and a close confident of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore. His
great love for the people of India and excellent services and
sacrifice for the suffering millions of our Motherland, More
especially for emancipation of the bonded labourers in this country
and abroad are a constant source of inspiration to all the
constituents of the college - its administration, staff members and
students.
The college was
basically constituted at the fringe of this semi-urban zone of 24
Parganas (South) district with an aim to disseminate the scope of
higher education to a huge number of children of the displaced persons
from erstwhile East Pakistan, presently Bangladesh. Moreover, our
institution is also providing immense opportunities of higher
education to a large number of rural and urban students, a substantial
number of which belongs to schedule castes, other disadvantaged and
marginalised section of the society. Initially, the college was
providing education in a few specified subjects to only 750 to 1000
students. But at present the roll strength has reached almost 5000 as
the college is now offering Advanced Courses in 12 subjects in
Science, Arts and Commerce stream along with General courses.
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