The College

Half a century ago nobody knew Santinagar, some steps away from Palta Railway Station on the Sealdah–North Section. For the partition of Bengal this area witnessed sudden demographic growth. Incidentally a large number of inhabitants belonged to backward classes of the society.

Some energetic persons led by Late Nihar Bose, an eminent social worker and sometimes a minister in the Government of West Bengal took the initiative for social amelioration. The very first thing towards that direction which they did was the establishment of educational institutions. Primary schools to a college were all clubbed together in very close proximity. One of the end results was the establishment of P. N. Das College on 20th August, 1962, in which Sri Debesh Das a well-wisher donated a huge sum of money to assist the establishment of the college in his father’s name, Late Priya Nath Das.

Initially P.N. Das College got affiliation from the University of Calcutta for teaching some subjects in the Arts faculty and later on in 1975-76 Department of Commerce was established. Presently, the College, affiliated to the West Bengal State University, offers 11 programmes with Honours in Bengali, English, History, Education, Political Science, Geography and Commerce and 16 General subjects.Following University Guidelines,the college has been following National Education Policy 2020curriculum since 2023-24.

The curriculum is enriched through various Add-on Certificate courses, Value added courses, seminars, workshops and other co-curricular activities. An incubation centre has been set up for providing resources, mentorship and guidance for setting up business and promoting self-employment.

The students have been regularly achieving success in the university examinations with a number of rank holders every year.The students of the College also regularly bring awards in Sports and other extra curricular activities.

Since the teacher-taught ratio is reasonable and in some cases favorable to the taught, the benefits extended to the students is certainly very high.

The college has been reaccredited(2nd cycle) by NAAC with B+ grade.