Institutional Distinctiveness

A number of uniqueness can be listed as the distinctive characteristic of our college though; they all can be weaved together into one central theme, Inclusive College Campus in the True Sense of the Term.

Reaching out to the community:

Garhbeta College takes all possible actions to meet these challenges. We emphasize on learning through vernacular language as far as practicable, to help the first-generation learners coming from the rural surrounding of the college get better access to education.

Our college has been offering a unique subject combination, in order to better suit the capabilities of the students coming from the surrounding areas with distinct social-ethnic background. The combination of Santali, Physical Education and N.C.C. is slowly becoming a useful training for the students of the local communities. No other college in the vicinity offers this combination. This combination is well suited for our students coming from Santali speaking communities and it prepares them with training in physical education and for Defence and security services. We believe that more students will opt for this subject combination, and will come out better prepared for their future. This addresses the challenge of meeting the ‘lack of knowledge of higher education opportunities’, as highlighted in the NEP, 2020.

Trilingual Campus:

We ensure that our campus is inclusive in the truest sense, through conscious and consistent efforts of putting up banners, posters, signs and notices in three languages, Bangla, Santali and English. The language barrier is thus addressed and overcome through this effort. This is a distinctiveness that we maintain carefully, to ensure that our college is a higher education institute that welcomes and embraces diversity effectively. This reflects our commitment towards Chapter 14 of Part II of the New Education Policy, 2020, which is about the Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education.

Inclusiveness towards non-human residents of this earth:

We are all part of nature. As a species, the survival of Homo Sapiens Sapiens depends on the delicate ecological balance with nature. Therefore, as a higher education institution, it is our responsibility to nurture our students to become sensible citizens of the natural world. It is an integral part of our holistic learning environment, where we inculcate among the students a sense of reverse inclusion, the inclusion of humans into the nature. Towards this end, our college undertakes a number of initiatives.

The Eco club of our students, with active support from the Nature and Environment subcommittee is maintaining a forest of indigenous fruit trees. This project is taken up in collaboration with the Development Research Communications and Services Center (DRCSC), a prestigious NGO working on sustainability in numerous places of West Bengal.

The richness of flora (a large number are labelled with QR codes, directing towards India Biodiversity Portal) and fauna available on-campus are maintained and studied by the department of Botany and Zoology. The students learn about the contribution of such biodiversity to our lives.

Regular on and beyond campus green initiatives (such as reminding people about the human- wildlife coexistence, making and spreading seed-balls around, planting trees regularly etc.) are taken up by our students and staff, to spread the awareness and educate our community that we are part of nature.

Reflection of Inclusiveness in the courses offered:

We take our commitment towards inclusiveness seriously; hence we are proud to maintain multiple facets of learning through our offerings of a bouquet of diverse subjects. For example, students of our college may choose subjects from an array of STEMS (Bio-Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Social Sciences) along with Commerce, Physical Education, B.P.Ed (the two-year teacher training programme) and languages such as Bengali, Santali, Sanskrit (and also English) embedded in the Indian Knowledge System.

Our college has good sports infrastructure, including a football ground, Gymnasium with multigym facilities & physiotherapy unit, Volleyball Court, Kho-Kho Field, a basketball court etc. that help to support and nurture talented students, who regularly fare well at the university and state levels.

With the rapid growth of IT (Information Technology) industry in India, this has created a lot of opportunities for the computer graduates. The Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) programme makes the local youth suitable for IT industry or different IT related job.

Thus, the platter of various courses offered by our college aims at including learners with different kinds of needs and talent, from ancient language to artificial intelligence.

Gender-Inclusive Approach:

Our college campus is truly gender-inclusive, with infrastructural, institutional as well as organizational framework deployed to ensure participatory and gender-sensitive learning environment.

Inclusive of Differently abled students:

A crucial aspect of a barrier-free and inclusive learning environment is the infrastructural amenities for the differently-able students, which our campus is equipped with (such as drinking water facility and accessible toilets).

Overcoming the Distance barrier:

There are two boys’ hostels and one girl’s hostel on-campus that help our college cater to students from faraway places and communities. This meets the challenge of breaking the ‘geographical barrier’ mentioned in the NEP, 2020.

Generating employability potential:

The challenge of poor employability potential of higher educational programmes is met with consistent and thoughtful effort. The B.P.Ed. Programme prepares the students to take up higher education like M.P.Ed. and/or become experts, instructors or teachers of physical education, sports, yoga or gymnasium. The BCA programme equips students with a versatile skill set for a wide range of IT-related careers, including software development, system analysis, database administration, network administration, and more.

The Career counseling Cell and the Eco-Friendly Innovation and Self-Employment Incubation (EFISEI) Hub of our college sincerely work for preparing our students for the professional world, through matching the employable students with the potential employers as well as raising employability of our students.

Breaking the economic barrier:

The college provides hand holding support to the students to receive various scholarships and free-ships to combat the economic opportunity cost of pursuing higher education and breaking any financial barrier. The economic opportunity cost of pursuing higher education as well as the financial constraints faced by the students is thus addressed regularly.