About Us
Arsha College, being situated on the bank of river Bandu, was firstly affiliated to the University of Burdwan prior to the establishment of Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia. The year of foundation of this college, being registered under Arsha Educational Society, was 2009. With the tremendous effort of many social workers of the locality, irrespective of their political background and having a common objective to impart higher education through the long cherished dream of a college was ultimately become fruitful.This dream came true when the successors of Late Kalicharan Kumar of village Arsha donated the present land measuring 12 acres approximately and spontaneous collection of donations from various aspects of locality possessing well-wishes and enthusiasm towards higher education through College. Since most of the area of Arsha Block is situated at the foot of Ajoydhya hill having approximately 15% of the people belonging from minority community and rest of the people are either S.C or S.T or O.B.C. and a very few from General category the spread of higher education was obstructed year after year because the people had less interest to admit their children in other colleges far apart from their dwelling places due to poverty and early marraige specially for their girl child. With the help of M.P., MLA and Zilla Parishad fund, through the construction all the classes are running smoothly though the initial year all classes were run at nearby Aharrah Girls'School Premises. Sri Sahadv Patra, the Ex-Principal of Manbhum Mahavidyalya worked as an honorary Principal of the college since its inception to the date19-11-2012. The college staff are very sincere regarding their duty and homely atmosphere exists with the staff, teachers and the students. The Honours courses in Bengali, Engli8sh, History, Education, Geography, and Kudmali. Pure science subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry were introduced from the sessions2014-15. The rapidly growth of the students is one of the important features of the college. At present there are 1700 number of students in the college and solely depending on the donation obtained from various well wshers, enthusiastics, eminent persons of our locality the college Library consists of 6500 books and effort is going on to purchase more books from donation or Government Aid. The result of last three years of the college is highly satisfactory and regarding cultural activity the performance of the students by taking part in District Youth Parliamentary competition and Sports since 2012-2013 is undoubtedly praisable. The college is at a distance of about 24 kms from Purulia town and it is almost 4kms away from Arsha as well as from Sirkabad. The natural cool and calm atmosphere of the college far apart from district Headquarter hopefully looks forward under the guidance of Shri Maheswar Mahato, the President of the college.