Municipal Post Graduate College, Mussoorie

About Municipal Post Graduate College, Mussoorie

Municipal Post Graduate College, Musoorie was founded in the year 1963 by the vision and devotion of Shri Jagannath Sharma, Ex. M.P., a great social worker, humanitarian and educationist. He was the founder President of the Managing Committee of this College. The College is managed and owned by a Management Committee that is headed by the Chairman of the Municipal Board of Mussoorie. In the year 1963, Shri Jagannath Sharma and other members of the erstwhile Municipal Board decided to start a Degree College in the famous tourist hill station of the country. Until then Mussoorie had no institution of higher education, though it had a number of reputed boarding and government schools for the primary, secondary and senior secondary education. Therefore, the students from Mussoorie and the surrounding regions, which form part of the Tehri district, faced a lot of difficulty in pursuing their higher education. For many poor and economically much weaker students this often meant closure of their further studies as their parents could not afford to send them for higher education outside Mussoorie. The great visionary Shri Jagannath Sharma realized this difficulty and through his incessant hard work and very limited financial resources, the Municipal Board of Mussoorie passed a resolution to establish a Degree College in Mussoorie to help the poor and economically weaker students of Mussoorie and the surrounding regions to cherish their dream of having higher education at affordable prices. Thus, this College was born on 10 August 1963. It first began in Summer House, Kulri, Mussoorie and then shifted to its permanent building at Kincraig in Mussoorie in 1965.

The College was first of all affiliated with the C.C.S. Meerut University, Meerut. When the H.N.B. Garhwal Univesity, Srinagar, was founded in 1973, this College got affiliated with it and till date it remains affiliated to this University. Originally, in 1963 the College started with B.A. Classes in eight subjects, viz., English, Hindi, Mathematics, Political Science, Economics, Sanskrit, Sociology and History and it was then known as the Municipal Degree College, Mussoorie. The College, started M.A. Classes in English, Hindi, Economics and Political Science in 1965 and was renamed as the Municipal Post Graduate College, Mussoorie . In 1966, the Faculty of Science was established in the College with the introduction of Physics and Chemistry and Mathematics was introduced as a part of curriculum of the B.Sc. classes.