Department of Economics is one of the oldest in this College. Formerly it was known as Department of Political Science and Economics. After 1960-61 it was named as Department of Economics. Since then this department has been fulfilling the educational demand of good number of students. Since inception, this Department has been catering just – in- time service particularly to weaker and marginalised section of the society . This Department offers 2 UG courses (I) B.Sc (Hons.) Degree Course and (II)B.A/B.Sc (General) Degree Course. Both of them are 3 years programme. Stalwarts of this department

• Prof. Bhabotosh Dutta (Ex-Teacher)
• Prof. Kunja Bihari Kundu (Ex-Teacher)
• Dr. Nilabja Ghosh (Ex-Teacher, currently in IEG, New Delhi)
• Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay (Alumni)

Some of the established Alumni of recent years

• Arindam Bandopadhyay (Associate Prof, Amity University)
• Abhijit Sarkar (Sr. Vice President, Indicus Analytics)
• Seshanwita Das (Assoc. Prof, Amity University),
• Shuvankita Chakraborty (Capgemini)
• Subrata Majumder (Asst. Prof, Sunderban Mahavidyalay)
• Somsuvra Chakraborty (IGATE Global Solutions)
• Sanchita De (Guest Teacher, Gour Mohan Sachin Mandal Mahavidyalaya)
• Madhumita Bose (Manager, The Lalit Great Eastern)

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