- Debraj Roy College
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Debraj Roy College (Assamese: দেৱৰাজ ৰয় কলেজ) is a leading higher education institution established in 1949 in Jonaki Nagar Golaghat of the Golaghat district of Upper Assam, India.
The institution may be regarded as the brain child of Ayodhya Prasad Goswami, who was a student leader, Biplobi Bir Sankar Baruah, a revolutionary leader of the freedom movement, Golap Ch. Goswami, Dr. Promodaviram Das, Jadunath Saikia, etc.
The college was named after the late Debraj Roy, the founder of Bogidhala Tea & Trading Company, Goalghat, in whose memory his son Surendra Nath Ray, the then M.D. of Bogidhala Tea & Trading Company, donated an amount for the construction of the main building of the college.
Debraj Roy College has been re-accreditated with A grade by NAAC (CGPA 3.11) in 2010. It was also declared by UGC as a "College with Potential for Excellence" in the same year.
Affiliated to Dibrugarh University, the college has 15 Departments running Higher Secondary and undergraduate courses both in Science and Arts. The college has a current enrollment of more than 1700 students.
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External links
- Debraj Roy College official website, debrayroycollege.com/ Retrieved March 24, 2010.
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