The word ‘education’ is multidimensional. It has a wide range of meaning. This is Swami Vivekananda’s oft quoted and widely acclaimed definition: ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.’ Indian scriptures say “Sa Vidyaya Ya Vimuktaye.” Education is what liberates. Liberates from what ? From ignorance, poverty, ill health, superstition, mean-mindedness, all kinds of bigotry and the evils which frustrate the progress of human civilization and stand in the way of making this world a beautiful place to live in. Education is one of the basic needs of human existence. According to Aristotle, it is better to remain unfed than untaught. In his opinion, potential.But the present is not so rosy.

Then all the sorrows that lay heavily on us, the repeated failures, the botched trepidations will pass like the lights on bridges at village corners where shadows crouch under pierced constellations… (Derek Walcott, Tiepolo’s Hound) Fifty kilometers away from Berhampore, the village of Nagar has a remarkably enriched cultural legacy evident in the relics of ancient structures and an annual winter carnival inaugurated in the memory of saint Shah Chand Fakir. Far from the din and bustle of the city, Nagar College campus offers lush green meadows, a wide variety of trees like deodar, shishu, neem, shimul, sirish and chhatim, a delicately handled garden with flowers, palm trees and foliages, squirrels and butterflies moving around the perfectly trimmed hedges and the glistening surface of an aquatic body mirroring a still sky. The institution which was established in 1998 and got the required UGC affiliation in 2008 -