Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College
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Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College, better known as BJB College, is a college in Bhubaneswar
in Orissa
, India
that offers courses at primarily the higher secondary and under-graduate levels. The courses at the higher secondary level are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa, and courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level are offered in affiliation with Utkal University
, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. It is an autonomous institution recognised by the University Grant Commission (UGC)
of India, and enjoys the status of an A-Grade college as assessed by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC),an autonomous institution for assessment of educational institutions established by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
and Puri
in the southern part of the city. It is situated within a distance of 3 km from the Biju Patnaik Airport
, Bhubaneswar and 2 km from the railway station.It has three spacious buildings with adequate number of classrooms, laboratories, library, a general hostel to accommodate 125 students and a hostel named Dr Ambedakar Hostel having accommodation for 165 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students. it also has a newly built hostel named junior hostel for students studying in junior college.
The twenty two departments of the undergraduate college offers Three Year Bachelor's Degree courses in Humanities, Science and Commerce streams. The college offers 15 subjects in B.A. Honours that includes subjects such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Mathematics and Statistics, English, Oriya, Hindi, and Sanskrit. There are 08 subjects in B.Sc Honours including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Botany, Zoology, Statistics and Anthropology. In B.Com Honours, 02 subjects options are available, namely, Accountancy and Marketing Management. The college also conducts four professional courses including P.G. Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA), P.G. Diploma in Customer Contact Service Management (PGDCCSM), Certificate Course in Computer Concept (CCCC) and Certificate Course in Computer Based Business Accounting (CCCBBA). Recently some courses at the post-graduation level, such as Masters in Social Work (MSW) have been intitiated.
The college has 86 teaching staff, 108 non-teaching staff. The total student strength of the college in the various undergraduate courses stands at 2308. A total of 79 students are enrolled in the various PG Diploma courses of the college. The Teacher-Student ratio is 1:27.
The college has hostel facilities, a library with a holding of more than 60,000 volumes, and subscribes to around 600 periodicals (as of 2005). The college also has a small, but well stocked botanical garden, and a small sports complex. It attracts students from almost all the districts of the state as well as from the neighbouring states of Jharkhand
, Chhattisgarh
, Bihar
, and West Bengal
. The Junior College has consistently produced students who have secured ranks in the top-20 list in the annual Higher Secondary Examinations of the state every year.
Initially, the college offered courses only up to the intermediate level with an intake capacity of only 64 students each in the Science and Humanities streams. It was upgraded to a full-fledged degree college in the year 1962. The commerce stream was introduced in 1976. It was enlisted under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act in the year 1972 and under 12 (b) in the same year.
It was an affiliated college of Utkal University
till the session 1998-99. It has been functioning as an autonomous institution following the grant of autonomy by the UGC
in 1999. Over the years the college has grown in terms of its infrastructure, student enrolment and subject options.
, Arts
, and Commerce
.
, Chemistry
, Mathematics
, Anthropology
, Botany
, Zoology
, Statistics
, Computer science
.
, English
, Economics
, Education
, Geography
, History
, Hindi
, Mathematics
, Oriya
, Philosophy
, Political science
, Psychology
, Sociology
, Statistics
, Indian music
, Sanskrit
.
B.J.B Autonomous College is one of the first institutions in Orissa
to introduce the semester system in 2006-2007 following the guidelines of UGC. There is continuous evaluation through Mid Semester/Internal Assessment (20%) and Semester examination (80%) as well as Seminar Presentation, Project Work, Field Work, etc.
, The First Oriya Lady as well as the First Married Lady of the country to top All India Civil Service Examination.
Prabhat Behera, 1988 B.Com.
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
in Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
that offers courses at primarily the higher secondary and under-graduate levels. The courses at the higher secondary level are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa, and courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level are offered in affiliation with Utkal University
Utkal University
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is the oldest university in Orissa and the 17th oldest university in India. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating university that has produced some of the best brains in Orissa. There are at 26 post-graduate departments at the university campus for studies and research in...
, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. It is an autonomous institution recognised by the University Grant Commission (UGC)
University Grants Commission (India)
The University Grants Commission of India is a statutory organisation set up by Union government in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. It provides recognition for universities in India, and provides funds for government-recognised...
of India, and enjoys the status of an A-Grade college as assessed by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC),an autonomous institution for assessment of educational institutions established by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Description
The college is located over an area of 28.13 acres (113,838.2 m²) of land, near Kalpana Square, Bhubaneswar, on the Highway connecting CuttackCuttack
Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...
and Puri
Puri
Puri is district headquarter, a city situated about south of state capital Bhubaneswar, on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal in the Indian state of Orissa. It is also known as Jagannath Puri after the Jagannath Temple . It is a holy city of the Hindus as a part of the Char Dham pilgrimages...
in the southern part of the city. It is situated within a distance of 3 km from the Biju Patnaik Airport
Biju Patnaik Airport
Biju Patnaik Airport , also known as Bhubaneswar Airport, is situated in the city of Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. It is currently the only major airport in Orissa...
, Bhubaneswar and 2 km from the railway station.It has three spacious buildings with adequate number of classrooms, laboratories, library, a general hostel to accommodate 125 students and a hostel named Dr Ambedakar Hostel having accommodation for 165 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students. it also has a newly built hostel named junior hostel for students studying in junior college.
The twenty two departments of the undergraduate college offers Three Year Bachelor's Degree courses in Humanities, Science and Commerce streams. The college offers 15 subjects in B.A. Honours that includes subjects such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Mathematics and Statistics, English, Oriya, Hindi, and Sanskrit. There are 08 subjects in B.Sc Honours including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Botany, Zoology, Statistics and Anthropology. In B.Com Honours, 02 subjects options are available, namely, Accountancy and Marketing Management. The college also conducts four professional courses including P.G. Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA), P.G. Diploma in Customer Contact Service Management (PGDCCSM), Certificate Course in Computer Concept (CCCC) and Certificate Course in Computer Based Business Accounting (CCCBBA). Recently some courses at the post-graduation level, such as Masters in Social Work (MSW) have been intitiated.
The college has 86 teaching staff, 108 non-teaching staff. The total student strength of the college in the various undergraduate courses stands at 2308. A total of 79 students are enrolled in the various PG Diploma courses of the college. The Teacher-Student ratio is 1:27.
The college has hostel facilities, a library with a holding of more than 60,000 volumes, and subscribes to around 600 periodicals (as of 2005). The college also has a small, but well stocked botanical garden, and a small sports complex. It attracts students from almost all the districts of the state as well as from the neighbouring states of Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
, Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in Central India, formed when the 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking South-Eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained separate statehood on 1 November 2000....
, Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, and West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. The Junior College has consistently produced students who have secured ranks in the top-20 list in the annual Higher Secondary Examinations of the state every year.
History
The college came into existence in 1957 through an initiative of the Government of Orissa, in connection with the establishment of the state's new capital in Bhubaneswar in 1948, and the consequent need of quality man-power in the region. It is named after Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhara Bhramarabara Ray, who was one of the first people to challenge the British East India Company in the early 19th century, and is specifically known for his pivotal role in the mutiny Paaika Bidroha, that took place in 1817 in Khurda, Orissa.Initially, the college offered courses only up to the intermediate level with an intake capacity of only 64 students each in the Science and Humanities streams. It was upgraded to a full-fledged degree college in the year 1962. The commerce stream was introduced in 1976. It was enlisted under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act in the year 1972 and under 12 (b) in the same year.
It was an affiliated college of Utkal University
Utkal University
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is the oldest university in Orissa and the 17th oldest university in India. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating university that has produced some of the best brains in Orissa. There are at 26 post-graduate departments at the university campus for studies and research in...
till the session 1998-99. It has been functioning as an autonomous institution following the grant of autonomy by the UGC
University Grants Commission (India)
The University Grants Commission of India is a statutory organisation set up by Union government in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. It provides recognition for universities in India, and provides funds for government-recognised...
in 1999. Over the years the college has grown in terms of its infrastructure, student enrolment and subject options.
Faculties
The college runs three streams, namely: ScienceScience
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, Arts
The arts
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, and Commerce
Commerce
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Faculty of Science
PhysicsPhysics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
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, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, Botany
Botany
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, Zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
, Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, Computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
.
Faculty Of Arts
AnthropologyAnthropology
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, English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, History
History
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, Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Oriya
Oriya language
Oriya , officially Odia from November, 2011, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal...
, Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, Political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
, Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, Sociology
Sociology
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, Statistics
Statistics
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, Indian music
Music of India
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, Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
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Academic Programmes
Apart from regular courses for the degree of Bachelor in Arts, Science and Commerce, some selected Self-Financing Courses have been introduced with the approval of the Government such as Master in Social Work, B.Sc with Honours in Biotechnology and Computer Science as well as Diploma in Medicinal Plant Management. The new programmes instituted in the recent past are:- Honours in Indian Music.
- 5- Years Integrated M. Sc in Bioinformatics
- 5-Years Integrated M.B.A
- 5-Years Integrated M.Sc in Electronics and Telecommunication
- 2- Years M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 2- Years Master in Financial Control
- 3 -Years Bachelor in Information Technology and Management
B.J.B Autonomous College is one of the first institutions in Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
to introduce the semester system in 2006-2007 following the guidelines of UGC. There is continuous evaluation through Mid Semester/Internal Assessment (20%) and Semester examination (80%) as well as Seminar Presentation, Project Work, Field Work, etc.
Notable alumni
Roopa MishraRoopa Mishra
Roopa Mishra is an Indian bureaucrat who topped the I.A.S. Exam as a woman for the first time in Orissa in 2004.-Personal background:She was born in Angul, Orissa state on 9 June 1977 and went to various schools in Orissa. She completed her schooling from St. Joseph's Girls High School at Cuttack...
, The First Oriya Lady as well as the First Married Lady of the country to top All India Civil Service Examination.
Prabhat Behera, 1988 B.Com.