Jadavpur University
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Jadavpur University (JU) is a premier educational and research institution in India.
It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake. Four specialized institutes are affiliated to Jadavpur University -
- Jadavpur Vidyapith College of Education
- Institute of Business Management
- Shrimati J. D. Birla Institute
- Marine Engineering and Research Institute.
History
The National Council of Education (NCE) was set up in 1906 to impart literary, scientific and technical education on a national basis. The Bengal Technical Institute under the Society for Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal, was brought under the NCE in 1910. By 1940, the institute was virtually functioning as an independent university, and after independence, the Government of West Bengal, under the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the necessary legislation to establish Jadavpur University (December 24, 1955). This has since been observed as the Convocation Day. Jadavpur University specialises in Oceanography, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. It was the first institute in India to introduce Chemical Engineering as a discipline (1921). It has been merited with a five star rating by the University Grants Commission.
The emblem of Jadavpur University was designed by highly-regarded Bengal Renaissance artist Nandalal Bose.
Jadavpur University, in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute, developed the ISIJU - India's first indigenously made transistor-driven computer in 1966.
The university celebrates its Golden Jubilee on December 24, 2005. It also simultaneously celebrates the centenary of the founding of the National Council of Education.
Facts and figures
Jadavpur University is home to over 5000 undergraduate and over 4000 graduate students. It comprises three faculties:
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty Of Arts
Notable past / present faculty
- Amartya Sen (Economics) - Previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge & The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel awardee
- Buddhadev Bose (Comparative Literature) - Author & Sahitya Akademi award winner
- Alokeranjan Dasgupta (Comparative Literature) - Poet, Goethe Medal winner & Sahitya Akademi award winner
- Shankha Ghosh (Bengali) - Poet laureate & Sahitya Akademi award winner
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Comparative Literature) - Author & Padma Shree awardee
Distinguished Alumni / Students
- Swadesh Chatterjee (Instrumentation Engineering) - President, IAFPE & Padma Bhushan awardee
- Rituparno Ghosh (Economics) - Film director and National Award winner
- Santanu Das (Electronics & Telecommunications) - CEO, TransSwitch Corp
- Asoke K. Laha (Electronics & Telecommunications) - Founder and Vice-President, Interra IT
- Bhaskar Chaudhuri (Pharmacy) - CEO, Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, USA
- Debangshu Sengupta (History)-- TV Serial Director and Award winner
Campus life
Jadavpur University is one of the few universities in Kolkata to have a walled off campus, both in Jadavpur and Bidhan Nagar. The Jadavpur campus is pressed for space, but is green with ponds, playing fields, and tree groves. It also has a windmill.The social life of Jadavpur University revolves around its canteens, common rooms and student clubs. The Photography Club, Mountaineering Club and the Quiz Club (Enquiry) are integral parts of JU culture. Jadavpur University is also host to one of the oldest college cultural festivals in Eastern India, "Sanskriti." The three back to back cultural festivals of the three faculties which take place in March, are unique among college cultural festivals for their showcasing of Bengali culture. The recently started Jadavpur University Open Quiz - Qriosity - is the largest University invitation quiz for schools and colleges in Kolkata.
The Jadavpur University canteens - Milanda's Canteen, Amenities Centre (AC) canteen, CET Canteen, Staff Canteen and Ashirbaad Canteen - have added to the Bengali gastronomy by the introduction of "Dhoper chop", a term which is used today both as an item of food, or to signify "stuff and nonsense" - the latter being the reaction of unhappy eaters to the dish.
The Salt Lake campus is smaller, and is host to the curtain-raiser (opening program) of the university cultural festival Sanskriti. It is home to five of the engineering departments of the university and has within its campus a cricket field maintained by the CAB (Cricket Association of Bengal) on which Ranji Trophy matches are played during cricket season.
Jadavpur University also has a very distinctive lingo or campus-speak.
External links
- [Jadavpur University]
- [Department of Physics, JU]
- [Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, JU]
- [Jadavpur University Electrical Engg Dept]
- [School of Education Technology, JU]
- [School of Oceanographic Studies, JU]
- [The Engineering culfest Sanskriti official site]
- [Enquiry, The JU official Quiz Club]
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