University Science Instrumentation Centre, University of Kalyani (Nadia)

Academic Excellence

In the early 1950s, the township of Kalyani was developed as the brainchild of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal. Kalyani was planned to grow as a satellite town in the long-term perspective plan of the Calcutta Urban Agglomeration. For planned development of the town, the need for emphasising education and health infrastructure was duly emphasised in the master plan and the University of Kalyani was established in November 1960, as a unitary university with the faculties of Arts, Science, Education, and Agriculture. Since inception, the University marked its progress and attracted students of the region as well as many eminent scholars of the country. 

However, in its early stage of growth, the University was bifurcated in the year 1975 when its Faculty of Agriculture evolved into a full-fledged agricultural university, named as Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, which was established in the Mohanpur campus. Just after the bifurcation the University of Kalyani was left with 12 teaching departments under the faculties of Arts and Science only. It started reorganising its activities and by the end of 1970s, the University could introduce four more departments, namely History, Political Science, and Commerce under the Faculty of Arts, which was converted to Faculty of Arts and Commerce, and Bio-chemistry & Bio-physics under the Faculty of Science. Since then, the University has been continuously expanding its area of studies.

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Vision

• To encourage student enrolment from among weaker sections, even beyond the reservation limit
• To establish a finishing school and training centre and exposure of the students passing out so that they become readily employable in specific fields
• To introduce PG courses in non-conventional subjects and short-term utility courses having job potentiality
• To establish a strong partnership between the university and industry houses
• To explore academic exchange with more and more academic institutions of repute
• To improve the existing infrastructure – both academic and physical
• To create natural ambience by developing the vast green campus not only through beautification programme but also by generating resources