Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College is situated in Betai, a village in Nadia district, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1973 to serve a backward border area that, until the 1970s, was largely undeveloped and forested. More than ninety percent of the local population belonged to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward Class, and poor minority communities, many of whom were refugees from the former East Pakistan who settled there after the 1947 partition and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Driven by a strong desire to educate their children, local residents, with the help of educationist Haran Chandra Biswas, founded the college. A building named Haran Chandra Smriti Bhawan was later constructed in his memory. The college offers undergraduate courses in arts and commerce, with departments including Bengali, English, Education, History, Geography, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, Sanskrit, Physical Education, Commerce, and Mathematics. It is affiliated with the University of Kalyani and is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The institution maintains an official website, brambedkarcollegebetai.in, and is linked externally to the University of Kalyani, the UGC, and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.