Bagadhar Barahma Kishan College

Bagadhar Brahma Kishan College (B.B. Kishan College) is located at Jalahghat, in the newly formed district of Baksa under BTAD, Assam. It was founded following a public initiative in 1978 to provide higher education to the underprivileged boys and girls of the Jalah block, which is situated in the north-eastern corner of the Baksa district near the Bhutan border, and populated mostly by scheduled tribes and other native communities (+/- 92%). It was originally called Kishan College. In 1982, it was renamed to Bagadhar Brahma Kishan College after its benefactor who is an uneducated tribal social worker. Jalah is a low literacy neighborhood (1991: 40.34%, 2001: 54.45%), especially in female literacy (1991: 30.51%, 2001: 45.51%).