Radha Govinda Baruah College

Radha Govinada Baruah College is popualrly known as R. G. Baruah College is a promising institution offering both Arts and Commerce courses under Gauhati University for Degree classes and Assam Higher Secondary Education Council for Higher Secondary courses. The college is located on the southern part of Guwahati city at Fatasil-Ambari on the A.K. Deb Road, which connects Bharalumukh with the National Highway 37 bypass at Garchuk, and lies at a distance of about 25 kms from the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport, Borjhar, and 4 kms from the Guwahati Railway Station. The college was established in 1978 with the noble objective of spreading the light of higher education amongst the students of Kalapahar - Fatasil locality, quite a number of who belong to economically backward families. The college was named after Xingha Purusa Radha Govinda Baruah whose contribution in the fields of newspaper industry, sports organization, and cultural activities, is unparalleled in Assam. He is known as the Architect of Modern Assam. It is essentially his ideals that the College aspires to follow. The college was brought under the deficit grants-in-aid system in the year 1990 and Arts stream was provincialised by the Govt. of Assam in 2006 and Commerce stream was provincialised in 2013. It is permanently affiliated to Gauhati University and is under the purview of section 2(F) and 12(B) of the University Grants Commission Act 1956. At present it has fourteen departments under both the Arts and Commerce streams, and also offers courses in Computer Application and Information Technology Performing Arts) and Environmental Studies. It imparts education to more than fifteen hundred students annually.