Acharya JC Bose College, Kolkata

On 15 th May,1978 the college was transferred from 2,moira street to the present Premises No.1/1A,1/1B and 1/1C,Acarya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road,kolkata-20 by the management of the College i.e. Vidyamandir Society without the Consents of the affiliating University i.e. Calcutta University or the State Government. The students, teachers and the non-teaching employees of the college were in the dark about this transfer of the site of college.
On August 1978,Sri L.N.Birla, President,G.B., on behalf of the management had formally handed over the college to Late. Prof. Shambhu Ghosh, the Minister-in-charge for Higher Education in a function organised in the college. Subsequently G.O. was issued appointing an administrator and converting the college into a Govt. sponsored one although there was no follow up to the Government order. Being annoyed with the affairs of the college,the University took over the management by itself by appointing an administrator,Prof. S.R.Das w.e.f. 19.05.1979.The Govt. of W.B. took over the management of the college temporarily for two years w.e.f. August,1979 and appointed Dr.Subrata Gupta, Principal, Jogmaya Devi College, Calcutta as administrator. Subsequently, the state Govt. brought a bill before the legislative assembly for permanently taking over the management of this college along with that of four other colleges and convert it into a full-fledged Govt. college in 1980.The said Bill was adopted unanimously and later sent to the President of India for consents in the year 1980.The fate of the Bill is still unknown. At the end of two years period of the above mentioned temporary takeover of the college,the state Govt. therefore had to return the management for the second time and appointed Dr. Basudev Burman, dept. of chemistry, C.U. as the administrator of the college. He then prepared the constitution of a Governing Body under statue 93 of the C.U.First statue,1979 and the G.B. was constituted with Late. Prof. Amit Kumar Basak as its President. It took over charge w.e.f. September 1983. Since then, the college is being managed by the Governing body constituted/reconstituted as per Calcutta University statue,1979 from time to time.
As the college had no connection with the Birlas/the Vidyamandir Society since they handed over the college to Late. Prof. Sambhu Ghosh, then Hon'ble Minister -in-charge, Higher Education Dept., the G.B. of the college proposed the change of its name on and from 1.7.1987-the name of the college was changed from Birla College of Science and Education to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College with the approval of C.U.