Women’s College, Tinsukia

The Women’s College, Tinsukia came into being in 1966 on the auspicious day 9 July. A handful of visionaries viz. the Late Anath Bandhu Bose, Late Shanti Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Late Prithwish Chandra Bhadury etc. with unstinted support of academicians like Late Subodh Chandra De Sorcar were behind the genesis of the College. Eminent educationist the Late Uma Prasanna Dey was the founder principal of the College with 78 students on roll as the first batch. The auspicious occasion was blessed by the Late Dr. Indira Miri the revered educationist and pioneer of women empowerment in Assam. At present with the 2(f) and the 12(B) status of the UGC, the College has flourished into a multi faculty institution offering Arts and Commerce programs with fifteen hundred students and more than hundred teaching and non teaching faculties. A full-fledged study centre of the IGNOU and one Distance Education centre of the Dibrugarh University housed in the institution offer various courses at distance mode to aspiring students. Of late a new plot of land has been acquired by the College, where a New Campus is being developed utilizing grants received from the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan – RUSA.