Darrang College

Darrang College, also known as Nalanda of the North Bank, is a college located in Tezpur Municipality, Assam, India. It was established in July 1945 with 8 teachers and 112 students on the roll, with Kamakhya Prasad Tripathy, a veteran freedom fighter and trade union leader, serving as founding principal. Initially, classes were held at a bungalow belonging to Arnaldo Duchi, an Italian who sold the property to the college. The college later moved to the American Base Hospital campus at Mission Chariali, then to the Dak bungalow, before adopting its present site in October 1951. Notable visitors have included the Dalai Lama in 1959 and Indira Gandhi in 1963. The college offers a two-year higher secondary course in Science, Arts and Commerce under the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, and a three-year degree course in Science, Arts and Commerce under Gauhati University, to which it is affiliated. It also offers master's degrees in Assamese, Zoology, and Botany, a B.Sc. in Biotechnology, BCA, distance education through IDOL, courses under IGNOU, certificate courses, vocational courses, and a course on Human Rights.