Seth Anandram Jaipuria College B.A Review By Kasturi Ghosh

Seth Anandram Jaipuria College is located at 10, Raja Naba Krishna Street in the Shobhabazar area in North Kolkata. The morning shift is all girls with science, commerce, and arts; the day is co-ed also teaching science, commerce, and arts courses and the evening are all boys with only B.com being taught in this shift. The college is affiliated with the University of Calcutta and is one of the most renowned colleges in the city. Before the covid pandemic situation, the college admission had both offline and online systems however now they have their admission via online sites only. In the 2019 survey of the 100 best colleges in India published in Education World a magazine by human development, Jaipuria College was ranked at 55th best in India and 12th in the city.

I graduated with B. A English (Hons.) from this college in 2014. I was in the morning shift with really good professors guiding our way. I was overall satisfied with the faculty; they are all really knowledgeable in their subjects. Academics wise they have a very good faculty. All the professors in the English department were erudite and made us love our subject even more. The morning shift used to start from 6:30 am and during winters they used to shift it to 7 am. After finishing my graduation, I continued with higher studies but definitely, the three years in Jaipuria have been quite enriching academically.

The college has around 200 professors and around 100 supporting staff. In the morning shift English department we had around 5 full-time professors along with supporting teachers. All the professors that taught me had a great knowledge of their subject and many years of experience. Even so many years after I left college, I still remember their lectures so vividly. Dr. Mou Chattopadhay and Prof. Rajiv Roy deserve special mention here. Their knowledge and experiences left a deep-rooted mark in our minds.

Companies like IBM, Wipro came to our campus for placements. They took exams and some from our batch also got selected. Though do not know about other batches, in 2014, a friend of mine had got a package of 3,00,000.

Jaipuria College, unfortunately, does not have hostel facilities. Though who come to study here from other cities or towns, get rented accommodation in the nearby areas.

The main drawback of the campus I feel is the lack of space and lack of maintenance. The college is not maintained and cleaned well. The ground becomes bushy and untamed. Instead of keeping untamed plants and bushes in the ground, they can just make that space open to students. That would give them space to chill. Since the campus is compact there is no open space at all. Wasting that ground space is not a smart idea. There are ample classrooms, the library is very well stocked and there is no auditorium as such. There are some big classrooms which they sometimes use for arranging workshops and all. The canteen is a big disappointment. The college canteen is supposed to be a very crucial joint but that place is totally useless.

Jaipuria College had a very vibrant social circle. We used to attend fests and socials of all three shifts. There used to be a lot of events inside and outside the campus. The crowd sometimes got quite unruly from what is expected from students. Campus politics is one ugly blemish at this place because I found it quite controlling on the authorities and management.