Iswar Chandra Vidhya Sagar
Education, Empowerment, Enhancement is the motto of our college Empowerment and Enhancement is given to rural and poor women through Education.
Our College is started in the name of Vidhyasagar, Pandit Iswarchand (1820-1891) who was a Sanskrit pandit, educator, reformer, writer, and philanthropist. He was considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals and activists of the nineteenth century. His parents, though poor, managed to send him to Calcutta for studies after he finished his early education at the village pathshala. Iswar studied at Sanskrit College, Calcutta from 1829 to 1841. He bagged all the prizes and scholarships for best performance. Evaluating his performance in various courses – poetics, rhetoric, Vedanta, Smrti, astrology and logic. The College Committee endowed Iswarchand with the honorific title of Vidhyasagar (sea of knowledge) in 1839. He received a certificate of Honour at the Imperial Assemblage in January 1877. He also received honours and felicitations from many social, cultural and scientific organisations.