Harimohan Ghose College established by the scions of late Harimohan Ghose, a man of wealth and philanthropic spirit in the year 1963 is located in Garden Reach; an area in Kolkata adjacent to the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Dock or Kolkata Port and Garden Reach Ship Builders. With its moto of “From Darkness to Light to More Light”, the college affiliated to Calcutta University has aimed to extend the fruits of higher education and all the auxiliary human values that come with it to the inhabitants of a vast area. The hinterland of the college has more than 20 Higher Secondary schools, which has always provided the college with a steady and unending flow of students eager to face life armed with the arms of robust holistic education.
The college being a co-educational multi-disciplinary college has a student profile where 90% of the students comes from low-income minority communities.
From the beginning the college has aimed to give to these low-income families at least one graduate so as to create a domino effect on the educational ethos of the area. B.A., B.Sc., B.Com. with both major and minor courses included in the three disciplines, the college now at this juncture can claim that it has been fairly successful in guiding the students from the umbra of ignorance to the light of knowledge.
The vision of the college is to enable students to be intellectually competent, with a solid basis, ethically robust, socially aware, rational in temperament and liberal in thought so as to become worthy citizens of our great nation.
The vision of the college does not exist in vacuous words, it has been transformed into quest for trust between students and teachers. The staff of the college always promote the spirit of harmony among different groups of students partaking fully in their will and woe. With regular upgradation of teaching methodology and utilization of teaching tools at the disposal of the college, it has till date not failed in living up to its moto “From Darkness to Light to More Light”.
