Government General Degree College, Chapra

Institutional Distinctiveness

The most persisting characteristic that could be called as the distinctive feature of this minority dominated students based rural college since the dawn of its academic journey is the inclusive culture of socially, environment-friendly and ethically informed practices. Under the active guidance of the Principal, the college has taken oath to create a sustained culture of liability, equity and freedom on fronts that primarily embody the interests of the students and the community within their embedded environment. There could be seen to unfold within a three-tiered cluster (Students-Environment-Community) of activities to create the sense of desired distinctiveness.

Engagement with Students

Following are the highlights of the institution’s structured engagement with the students:

1. The library is nascent one, our new Librarian is trying to digitize with additional digital resources for the students like INFLIBNET. Library Automation along with high-speed Internet facilities is also under the process of Govt approval.
2. Our Library Reading room is unique for the students. They used to consult competitive exam books on regular-basis at least one hour per day to face the competitive exams.
3. At least two Class tests per Semester, student Seminar, student project, remedial classes are the unique features to the students of this college.
4. Career counselling are regularly shared with the students mainly through online mode.
5. The anti-ragging cell (SGRC kindly visit our website) keeps a sustained vigil on the activities of the students on campus.
6. The college also maintains regular contact with local primary and secondary schools by which it apprises them of the different opportunities, scholarships, organizing awareness programmes on regular basis and related aids provided to students willing to go for college education.
7. Every year ‘Free health check up camp’ for our students is organized usually in the month of January on regular basis since its inception. Chapra BMOH allowed our Students free consultations if they go to consult with college I cards.
8. Round-the-year NSS activities such as, organizing blood donation camp, and other awareness programmes like ‘Safe drive Save life’, Covid 19, Malaria and Dengue fever in this college are a prominent feature.
9. Students ‘Wall Magazine’ is also a regular and routine work by our students.
10. Since 2022, ‘Students Week Activities’ seven-days programmes are organized every year in the first week of January.
11. Our Kanyasree club is creating an awareness against ‘Child Marriage’.

Involvement with Environment

Being situated in the middle of lush natural cultivated fields at the outskirt of the village Shikra in the Chapra Block of Nadia district, approximately 3 km from Indo-Bangladesh International Border, the college, students, teaching associated staffs and faculties are more cautious about environmental awareness since they always make efforts to accept the environment as a learning principle that would help to create awareness of sustainability and conservation too. The following are the highlights of this involvement:

1. The Principal himself is a member of ‘West Bengal State Level Peoples’ Biodiversity Registers Monitoring Committee’ nominated by the Principal Secretary, Environment Deptt. & Member Secretary of West Bengal Biodiversity Board and accepted by National Biodiversity Authority of India (NBA, Chennai). He has evaluated more than 70 PBRs till date. In this context, his experiences made several unique biodiversity-related works viz., Butterfly Conservation Garden (technical support by West Bengal Biodiversity Board), Biodiversity Conservation Garden, Local Medicinal plant Garden, Biodiversity Conservation Lab, Giant water Lily pond (work is going on), Cactus Garden (work is going on), Orchidarium (going on) and Local Biodiversity hotspots conservation and restoration work outside college campus.
2. Our NSS Unit under the active guidance of our Principal made a significant and promising Butterfly Conservation Garden at Rajibpur Primary School, approximately 8 km from our College.
3. Our NSS Unit is involved in environment-related awareness programmes such as, ‘Save water Save Earth’, ‘Keep Clean Save Green’, ‘Plant a sapling save lives’ etc.) throughout the year at Rajibpur, Ranabandh and Hatkhola villages since its inception.
4. Our NSS & Kanyasree Club under the active guidance of our Principal already saved one local Biodiversity hotspots just outside our campus. They are also trying save more such local hotspots and other eco-restoration works.
5. Our NSS unit is involved to maintain and establish our college as the ‘Green Campus’ since its inception.
6. Recently Hatkhola GP under Chapra Block created five Ground water soaking LEACH PITS inside our campus for the purpose of conserving Ground water.
7. Recently Hatkhola Panchayat Samity constructed Solar-controlled Drinking Water Tank (Sajal Dhara) for our students. They also installed Solar controlled one LED light source, which provides light whole night.
8. Our gardens are harbouring seasonal butterflies, a good numbers of insects, molluscs, millipedes, snakes (5 spp.), toads, lizards, squirrels, Bengal fox (night time), jungle cats (during night time), a good number of birds, earthworms etc.

Involvement with the Community

Since the days of its inception, the college has been at tuned to the needs of the local community as almost all the students are coming from the local rural cultivator’s background. The college deems that the wholesome growth of students can only be achieved by integrating their community within the folds of the institution’s overall activities both inside and beyond the curriculum. Following are the highlights of our communitarian involvement:

1. Our NSS Unit is always involving local communities to organize various Awareness programmes (Covid 19, Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunia, Safe Drive save live etc) round the year at Hatkhola, Rajibpur, Shikra and Ranabandh villages since its inception.
2. Local communities are directly involved to our College Programmes like Independence Day Celebration, Republic Day, Netaji Birth Day, Rabindranath Tagore Birth Day, World Environment Day, Vanmohatsab Tree Plantation programme, Blood Donation Camp etc.
3. During College Vaccination Programme in September 2021 and December 2021, we provided vaccines to the local people of Shikra and Hatkhola.
4. Local people of Shikra and Hatkhola villages are used to discuss at college with our Principal at least twice in a year for the overall development of the college.

Institutional Distinctiveness