Kamla Rai College, Gopalganj

Campus Location: Gopalganj

Located in Kamla Rai College, a constituent unit of Jai Prakash University, Chapra is the first degree college of the Gopalganj District established in 1956. The college was founded by Shri Kamla Rai, a great freedom fighter, MLA and president of the Saran District Board with a mission to promote higher education in this region. This remote rural district of Bihar adjacent to Kushi Nagar Uttar Pradesh and Champaran has always been deprived of the basic facilities in the field of education. This college has fulfilled the need and dream of the people of this locality. A galaxy of great scholars in their subjects is the prime source of inspiration to the students and an asset to the college. Their effective teachings with new, innovative methods and teachings have brought name and fame to the college. Their contribution to the research works in their respective fields is also commendable., The college runs in two separate campuses - Science Block and Arts Block. The Science Block is situated at Thana Chowk, Gopalganj. This block offers Bachelor degree courses in Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Math and Master Degree in Maths. This block has well furnished big Classrooms and well maintained Labs and a Post Office in its own campus also exists., The Arts Block of Kamla Rai College is situated near Arar More Closed to NH28, Gopalganj. It has a sprawling, beautiful campus spreading in 6 acres of land filled with green trees and plants of fruits and flowers. A large number of show-plants also add the scenic beauty of the campus. This Block has a very rich library, neat and clean class-rooms of proper dimensions endowed with good furniture, a large field for games and sports and a nice stage of standard size for organizing different academic and cultural programs of the college. This Arts Block offers Bachelor Degree Courses in Hindi, Urdu, English, Sanskrit, Philosophy Political Science, History, Geography, Economics and Psychology and Master Degree course in Political Science. The college also has two wings of NSS - one for boys and another for girls, which provide students with an opportunity to explore and nurture their co-curricular and extra–curricular skills by organizing competitions in debate, speech, essay- writing, drawings, dancing, singing, acting etc. Discipline, respect for teachers and brotherhood among the students has been the part of its glorious tradition. Here students embrace their education with hope and confidence and finally they make successful careers in their own respective fields., The college also runs BCA course opening new vistas for technical education and job-oriented courses. The college also has study centers of IGNOU (Indira Gandhi Open University, New Delhi) and Nalanda Open University, Patna.. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.