Purnea College, Purnia

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Purnea college, Purnia, established in 1948, is the oldest institution of higher education in this region. Situated on the periphery, adjoining West Bengal in the east and Nepal in the north, the institution is a commemoration of the efforts of the freedom fighters of this area. Late Dr. Lakshmi Narayan Sudhanshu, Ram Narayan Mandal (Both former speakers of Bihar legislative Assembly) Bhola Paswan Shastri (Ex Chief Minister of Bihar and Central Minister), noted freedom fighter and Sarvodya leader Late Baidyanath Choudhary, Late Rai Bahadur Durga, Prasanna Ghosh, Raghuwansh Prasad Singh, Upendra Narayan Choudhary, Anup Lal Mehta, Haji Ziaur Rahman, Seth Raut Mal, Kumar Bimlanand Sinha of Banaili Estate and the then District Magistrate Shiv Prasad Singh, were the inspiring force behind the establishment of this college.

The urgency and necessity of establishing a college here compelled Sudhanshujee to move fast and it conceived first of all at Gokul Krishna Ashram in 1944 but the effect of Quit India Movement still running at a pace found the pioneers of this mission behind the premises of different prisons. Just after the independence these stalwarts of the area found their dream come true. The state capital being 300 kms away without road connectivity, the nearest college being 100 kms away at Bhagalpur across the river Ganga, only a few could manage to have their wards sent to far away places for higher learning. Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, even Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur were out of bound for common people of this area which is predominantly connected with agriculture even today.

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