Netaji Nagar Day College

The Partition of India was the catalyst ? in itself a cataclysm in the life of this one great nation that witnessed the mass exodus of an uprooted sea of humanity from the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, seeking a bare minimum of food and shelter in the districts of West Bengal, searching for an identity in an alien milieu, struggling to find a foothold in an unaccustomed terrain. Time has always been profile_new_pic2the best healer, and these displaced families overcame the teething trouble to settle down to a quieter life in the suburbs of the city of Kolkata. Netaji Nagar was developed in the city-fringe to accommodate thousands of transplanted men and women in the year 1950 and it gradually developed in the early Fifties of the last century. These families displayed admirable resilience and fortitude in mingling with the life and culture in their new-found home away from home.Once the basic needs for survival were procured, they began to cherish the dream of providing their succeeding generations with proper foothold in life through institutional education and the creation of a cultural milieu. A heroic struggle of the local people caused the establishment of ?Netaji Nagar Vidyamandir?, the adjacent Boy?s School, a secondary school, that was constructed overnight on 2nd January, 1951.It marked the beginning of the struggle for profile_new_pic4establishing educational institutions in the area. It was through some more years of protracted struggle that some primary and secondary schools could be set up in the locality as an initial step towards establishing a cultivated ambience. When the children grew older and were moving beyond the school level, the urge to establish institutions for higher education became imperative.