History of the College

Joypur Panchanan Roy College

Established in 1986, Joypur Panchanan Roy College is situated in the village of Joypur, Amta-II which is one of the geographically remotest places in the district of Howrah. Joypur is actually a part of the delta of the rivers of Damodar and Mundeswari. The area becomes cut off from the rest of the district in the rainy season as the floods are the recurring phenomenon every year. The waters are released from the reservoirs and Joypur and Amta-II gets submerged being low-lying areas.
Being situated in such a place, the College mainly caters to the needs of the local people who are mainly from the agricultural community and first generation learners. Joypur Panchanan Roy College has provided an opportunity to them who otherwise would have been deprived of pursuing Higher Education. Since its establishment, the College has been trying within its limited resources to stand by the needs of the villagers and help them fulfill their dream of getting university recognized higher education. At present, the College can offer only Honours and General courses in B.A. and B. Com. and the College needs to introduce more courses to be really meaningful.
In spite of all our difficulties and limited resources, we approached NAAC in 2007 for accreditation and we are proud to declare that we were accredited as a C++ institution by NAAC. This time we approach NAAC for re-accreditation for the second cycle which should have been done in 2012 but as we have already stated, we had to go through some turbulent times mainly because of flood which has been of devastating nature in the last few years. But we are fixed in our aim to provide better education to the educationally backward area and therefore approach NAAC again to find areas of improvement and better service.