Kokrajhar Govt College, Kokrajhar

Campus Location: Kokrajhar

Located in Establishment: Kokrajhar College is a premier educational institution located at the heart of the town which is the head quarter of Kokrajhar District and the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam. It was established in the year 1959 with arts stream only. The science stream was opened in the year 1964 and was brought under deficit system in 1972.The college was taken over as a full fledged Govt. College on 22nd August 2006 and rechristened in the name and style of Kokrajhar Govt. College., Mission: The establishment of Kokrajhar College was made with honest and noble missions. It was set up with the untiring effort of some missionaries of the locality. The mission underlying the foundation of Kokrajhar College have best been reflected in the improvement of the socio economic, cultural and civic life of the people of this area in the subsequent phases of time since the establishment of the college. The time of establishment of Kokrajhar College, the number of Colleges in the lower Assam was limited only to three; they were B.N. College, Dhubri, Abhayapuri College, Abhayapuri and Goalpara College, Goalpara. So Kokrajhar College covered a large catchment area which is predominantly inhabited by socio economically backward tribal people. Illiteracy was the primary feature of this locality at that time. One of the missions of Kokrajhar College was to provide people with opportunity of higher education so that they could shoulder the responsibility of educating their people on large scale., Like any other backward places of India, the society of this area had suffered from a variety of social evils, such as superstitions, crude social practices, prejudices etc. Economic system was based on social inequality and exploitation and was of primitive nature. People suffered from poverty, misery, unemployment, diseases. The primary reason for such socio economic backwardness was ignorance and illiteracy of the people. Removal of socio economic backwardness through education was also a mission of Kokrajhar College., Modern education is rational and based on scientific outlook. The mission of this college was to promote scientific, rational and secular outlook among the people and to help people overcome superstition and evil social practices and to inculcate a rational behavior., Progression to higher studies was another mission of this college. After completion of College education, successful students would have the opportunity to attain higher education at University and technical institutions etc.Another mission of Kokrajhar College was to help the people to get employment, Acquisition of higher education is oriented towards better employment opportunity. Establishment of Kokrajhar College was also equipped with this noble mission. Another reason of backwardness of that time was the lack of civic sense among the people. Promotion of civic sense or bringing about civil society can be made only through modern education which was also another mission of Kokrajhar College. Since the time immemorial, this region had remained isolated from the main land physically and socio-culturally. The area was hardly accessible to people due to specific geographical location. Establishment of the college was envisaged as a centre of disseminating enlightenment. In order to pull down the barrier of sociocultural isolation, a centre of intellectual interaction was necessary. People thought the college would play the role of creating unity and integraty among the people. This was another mission of Kokrajhar College., Kokrajhar Govt. College, Address:, P.O : Kokrajhar, B.T.A.D. Assam, Pin:783370, City: Kokrajhar, State: Assam, Fax : 03661-271708, www.kokrajharcollege.org. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.