Basanti Devi College Director Working as the Principal of the College,
Project investigator.CSR and UNDEF Project on Emancipating the role of women in strengthening Democracy,
UGC project investigator on Kolkatta Urban Services for the Poor:
A Program on the Empowerment of women residing in the Titagarh and Barrakpore slum areas.
Convener RC 16 Urban and Industrial Studies, Indian Sociological Conference.
BASANTI DEVI COLLEGE
DIRECTOR ,WOMENS` STUDIES CENTRE ,HEAD DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE,AND HEAD HUMAN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT
,MEMBER INTERNATIONAL HARMONY ASSOCIATION,
ONVENER RC 16 INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
PRESIDENT BEAUTIFUL MIND,A PARENTAL ORGANISATION FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN,
MEMBER INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,
WEST BENGAL BRANCH.
AUTHOR OF SIX BOOKS ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,
CO AUTHOR OF THREE BOOKS ON WORLD PEACE AND HARMONY,
GUEST LECTURER DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY ,
MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD INTERNATIONAL JPURNAL ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
FIRST CLASS FIRST GOLD MEDALIST. WINNER OF BEST ACADEMICIAN AWARD, ETC.
Basanti Devi College is the first government sponsored college in Kolkata and was founded by the Government of West Bengal in 1959 to reduce the traffic jam in girl's colleges in the southern part of Kolkata.
Named after the eminent freedom fighter Basanti Devi, the first lady to be imprisoned under British Rule for being involved in the war of Independence of India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta.
The college is located in the junction of urban and the rural conglomerate. Basanti Devi College caters the women students for both the localities.
A large group of them are students of the college are also from backward classes; minority communities and some are also from below poverty line. There is provision for admitting women with special needs.
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