Anugrah Narayan College ( A N COLLEGE)

BRIEF HISTORY OF A N COLLEGE

Drawing inspiration from sagacious leader of Bihar Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, the college was established in January 1956, at Patna High School as Gardanibagh Tutorial College, to be run in the evening shift. The objective was to facilitate academic pursuits of employees working in various departments during day time. Subsequently, this college was renamed as Anugrah Narayan College (A.N. College)Patna. In 1959, the college was shifted to its new premises. The first principal of the college was Dr. Gorakh Nath Sinha, a great economist and a contemporary of Dr. Hicks, a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

On the personal initiatives of Bihar Vibhuti Anugrah Babu , Patna Improvement Trust provided 19 acres of land to this present site but later on some of the lands were released back to farmers and eventually the college rested with 13 acres of land. The classes were shifted from Anisabad to this premises and thereafter the college blossomed and metamorphosed into present form. The erstwhile governing body had eminent personalities like Sri Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Ex-C.M.of Bihar, Mrs. Kishori Sinha, Ex-M.P, Justice K.B.N.Singh, Justice Birendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Sheo Narayan Singh and Sri Sunil Mukherjee.

To this date, the college has 24 UG departments and 23 PG departments. The college has never hesitated to take innovative measures. Keeping in view, technological march of resurgent India, the college has introduced apart from conventional courses,a large number of technological and industry driven courses. On initiative of U.G.C and Government of Bihar, many new courses like Electronics, Environmental Sciences were introduced during 1980s. In1996, the first vocational course E.W.M(Environment and Water Management) was introduced later on, many more job oriented courses like B.C..A, B.B.M, M.C.A, M.B.A and Biotechnology were added to the list.

The multi dimensional academic activities have turned the college into a Centre for Excellence, fully eqipped to face the challenge posed by the growing demands in the field of higher education. It is a matter of immense satisfaction that distinction in teaching and research has enabled this college to have academic collboration with many reputed institutions in India and abroad.

The college is conducting pioneering research work with the funds provided by distinguished agencies like UNICEF, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, U.G.C. etc. Besides, the college regularly organizes National and International Seminars and the conferences with the participation of important National and International Delegates so that students may get exposure to advancements in different academic fields. Several faculty members of this college have also presented their research papers in different prestigious National and International Seminars and publish research papers in peer reviewed journals.

Abosolute Enlightenment through Knowledge 

This is embedded in our logo which forms the core-value of the institution. This institution is committed to provide high quality, affordable eduction to all section of society. Being the critical component of human development, the college aims to equip our student with knowledge and skill that allow them to make grater contribution to society. This institution draws inspiration from a famous quote of Bihar Vibhuti Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha "Stan by Merit". Our motto is to prepare our students to face new challenges of the inexorable march of technology, solving growing demands and aspiration of the society in unlocking and harnessing new knowledge and innovation ideas, building cultural understanding and modelling environment that promote dialogue and debate. We bekieve that "We cannot always build future fr youth but we can build youth for future."

• To promote scientific temper amoung the student to adapt to technological advancement and innovation ideas.
• To inculcate ethical, human and culural values imbued with sense of participation facilitating holistic growth.
• To provide eduction accessible to all section of the sociaty.
• To prepare future generation of skilled professional with essential scruples to compete in diverse global enviroment.
• To lay emphasis on "ICT Oriented Teaching and Learning" along with "Chalk and Talk" method.
• To encourage critical thinking and analytical skills among the students to instill sense of responsibility actuated by indomitable courage to scale new height of excellence.
• To inculcate "Gender Equality" and "Respect for Individual's Right" in a multi-cultural society as sacrosanct principle.