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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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