Lady Brabourne College - [LBC]

The Annual Sports Day is observed with great enthusiasm every year on the College ground. The Athletic Committee of the College organizes this annual event in which students, teachers and non-teaching staffs participate and talent is identified for participation in Inter College events. Trophies, medal and certificates are given to the winning participants. Students also participate in the Inter-College Sports Meet organized by Government Colleges annually at the S.A.I. Complex, Salt Lake.

The Athletic Committee also organizes the flag hoisting ceremony on 26th January, 15th August and Calcutta University Foundation Day (24th January) when students put up various performances.

Due to the Covid Pandemic, the annual sports was organized online on February 8th, 2021. It was the first-of-its-kind event from the College where the students performed the activities in front of their laptop or desktop screens at home. The sporting events included Yogasana, Go As You Like, Plank, Sit-ups, Skipping and Push-ups. Maintaining COVID-safety protocol, the inauguration was held in the College campus, where the Principal, along with members of the Athletics Committee and some other teachers lighted the torch. A big screen was put up in the College auditorium for the faculty members who were judges for the different events.

Lady Brabourne College is committed to the holistic personality development of each student and offers various club activities to cater to their various interests and professional domains. These Students’ clubs allow enthusiastic students to organize activities, pursue their passions, bring out their hidden talents and nurture their aptitude. Growing with the club and participating in the various club activities endows the students with overall development and provides them an opportunity to network with their peers, professional experts, alumni and students from other colleges/universities/institutes. It offers a rich experience of student life, packed with fun and self-learning.

Concern to serve society is perfectly blended with academics in Lady Brabourne College. The students of this college have an opportunity to join a unit of the National Service Scheme, (NSS) to take part in various activities generating social awareness about environmental issues, gender issues and other social issues. Children from the adjoining slum area are catered through a night school run by the hostel students. Blood donation camps and health check up camps for the slum dwellers are also organised under the supervision of the teachers.

Lady Brabourne College Hostel is located in the adjacent premises of the College and can accommodate more than 250 girls. There are two blocks of buildings for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, including a visitors’ room, a common room for the boarders equipped with media facilities, a Library, a Gymnasium, a dining room, a canteen and a reprographic centre. Admission to the hostel is strictly based on merit, distance from hometown and on the reservation quota for SC, ST, OBC and Persons with Disability. It is ensured that each department gets a fair share of equal seats in the Hostel. The Hostel administration is entrusted on the Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent and Matron, assisted and supported by a good number of maintenance staff, both government and private. Security is ensured by security guards and gatekeepers, both government and private and CCTV cameras installed in the campus. A dedicated Hostel Committee comprising two Conveners and several members (all members of the teaching faculty) is there to guide and monitor the hostel affairs in a regular manner. A night school is also run as part of Outreach Program by the Hostel students in the Hostel premises where children from the adjoining slum areas are taught. The hostel campus has a well maintained and developed butterfly garden with a large number of flowering plants which serve as hosts to different species of butterflies.

In all matters of discipline and conduct the Hostel is governed by the rules of UGC, MHRD, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal and the regulations sanctioned by the College authority. Ragging in any form is completely prohibited in the Hostel campus. Strict conformity to the rules of the hostel is required of each inmate. They are provided with medical assistance at times of need by competent medical practitioners. Psychological counselling, help and support are also given to them at regular intervals. As students from different quarters of India, of different socio-economic and ethno-linguistic backgrounds come to study and stay in our Hostel, a complete picture of diversity and harmonious living of our country can be found here, by ensuring the students to stay together, study together, dine together and celebrate different occasions of National and State importance together.

Three categories of visitors are allowed to visit the boarders: