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The College

The institution in North Kolkata, Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College (SAJC) carries a long history of 78 years, located near the famous Shovabazar Rajbari that once belonged to the families of Maharaja Naba Krishna Deb.

The College has been associated with many eminent personalities involved in India’s Nationalist Movement. The most noteworthy of them is Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who inaugurated the college in 1945. It is our privilege to recall once more the perspective of the foundation of this college and to pay tribute to its founder. India was entering into the final phase of freedom negotiations with the British; it was at the juncture in 1945 that an Indian college was established in British India by the courageous Indian Padma Bhusan, Seth Mangturami Jaipuria.

One can say with pride and satisfaction that the history of this college is one of uninterrupted progress. The college runs three shifts catering to the Girls’ section (Morning, Co-ed Section (Day) and Boys’ Section (Evening).

The present massive building of the College was not built in a day. It took a long time to take the present shape. The building has three blocks – Central, North and South. The Central Block with a floor space of 16,462 sq. ft. was started in 1961 and completed in 1963. The North Block measuring about 25,316 sq.ft. was started in 1965. The 14,700 sq.ft. South Block took its final shape in 1975 with a total floor area of 56,478 sq.ft. The extension part of the College (built with the help from UGC grant) came up in 2013 to house a gymnasium, a conference room and the NAAC cum IQAC office.

The Library

Seth Anandram Jaipuria College Library is one of the oldest college libraries in Kolkata with proud possessions of knowledge resources.  The College has a well-equipped Library with a spacious Reading room and state of the art facilities in the library.

The mission of S.A. Jaipuria College has always been to impart education through quality teaching. The College library reflects this aim by committing itself to the task of making education essentially knowledge based, not just exam oriented. Books, computers, newspapers, journals, and magazines are utilized as channels for accumulating and disseminating knowledge.

On 18 February, 1945 a meeting was held to discuss the appointment of a sub-committee to frame a Constitution and arrange for the building and library of the proposed college. A sum of Rupees one lakh was deposited with the Hindusthan Mercantile Bank in Calcutta in the name of the College.

The objectives of the Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College Library are:

o   To act as the knowledge hub of the institution.

o   To help in the present curriculum of the college by supplementing information and knowledge resources within the college.

o   To collect, preserve, cultivate and endow the treasures of information and knowledge resources with the emphasis of the present curriculum of the college.

o   To act as the centre of excellent in terms of providing information services to the users.

o   To help the faculties in promoting academic and research related activities with the college.

The mission of the library is to provide excellent information services for achieving the overall goal of the institute. The uninterrupted flow of information to the users is the primary goal of the library. The library will act as the gateway to the knowledge resources of the institution.

The college library is to set such goal to achieve the objectives as stated in the document and reach to the state of excellence. The vision of the library is to become a fully automated library with the state of the art web based library facilities for both the teachers and students. The library will act as the knowledge repository of the institute.