Surendranath College for Women

Our vision constitutes the empowerment and enlightenment of young women through value-based and quality education to create confident citizens of tomorrow. The institution plays an active role in enabling our students towards seeking employment and sensitizing them to national and international issues to make them self reliant and confident citizens in the 21 st century.

The mission of the college is pithily expressed through our motto “Damyate-Datta-Dayadhvam” (Chapter 5, Second Brahmana, The Brihadaranayaka Upanishad) (Control, Give, and Sympathize). The institution aims at a holistic development of our students. Since Literacy is the stepping stone to social and economic empowerment, the mission of the college is to provide quality education to the ordinary students to make them self reliant. Providing meaningful education to girls largely from marginal families is the core mission of the college.

Surendranath College for Women was established in 1948, mainly for imparting higher education to girls from partition-affected families. After partition many families came from then East Pakistan and settled in the Sealdah Railway station area and its neighborhood The girls had to take up jobs during the afternoons to maintain their families. So our college with its morning timings came into existence. Even today our ideal has remained the same. Many of our students come from extremely poverty-stricken backgrounds and several come from families below the poverty line. It is our aim to make them self-reliant.