Pandu College

The journey of the birth and growth of Pandu College is intrinsically associated with the expansion of NF Railway, India. Formation of NF Railway Head Quarters at Maligaon and the subsequent colonies along with the steady rise of inhabitants in the vast Pandu-Maligaon area naturally required a well functioning educational ecosystem. As western Guwahati didn’t have any institution of higher education at the time an attempt was made in 1960 to fill up this lacuna by prominent freedom fighter and social worker Sri Deben Sarma, the President and Secretary of Vidyamandir High Schoold, Sri S.K. Roy, Sri B.K. Mitra and Sri Satya Kinkar Sen representing the needs of the people. The ground work started in the middle of 1961, but concerns over space and fund loomed large. Fortunately at the initial stage, the N.F. Railway accorded permission to start classes in the vacated Netaji Vidyapeeth premises and also approved 99-year lease of 3.95 acres of railway land to set up the college.