City College of Commerce and Business Administration

All classes commence from 4.30 P.M. and give over at 9.00 P.M. The Administrative Office operates between 2.30 P.M. and 8.30 P.M., while the Cash Section operates between 4.30 P.M. and 7.30 P.M. Other departments and sections start working in tandem to effectively help the students and meet their requirements.

The classrooms are commodious enough to accommodate 150 students each. They occupy the upper storeys of the Main as well as the Annexe buildings, i.e. the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of the college.

The college has a spacious library with a collection of books (both text and reference) in commerce as well as other disciplines. The journal section is also well looked after with an impressive range of journals, periodicals and magazines both within and beyond the conventional academic ambit. Special attention has been given to the collection of books associated with other disciplines such as literature, social studies and philosophy as well as to reading materials pertaining to the academic career of the students. The library room, a sprawling space at the farthest end of the college building, with little noise filtering in, easily doubles up as a reading room and has to its credit an adjoining chamber containing a large number of rare books of a high academic pedigree. A thorough revamping of the catalogue system of the library is on the cards after Calcutta University recently made an overhauling of the Commerce syllabus. Although Internet facilities are available in the library, work is afoot to fully computerize it so that the students can be better served.

The college has an exclusive computer room for practical classes.

The college has recently opened and introduced its audio-visual room to the students, which has started hosting classes with the help of projectors and slides to help them delve deeper into what they get to study in books. Besides, this room will be revamped in due course to enable the institution to conduct seminars and symposia, the announcements of which will be made in the regular updates of the website.

The college is shortly going to open a Job Placement Cell the details of which will feature in the future updates of the Website.

Apart from looking after the academic requirements of the students, the college attends to the students who are financially worse off, or those who are badly in need of some financial grant from the college. Keeping such matters in view, the college administration has set up departments in the office, which directly address these problems by adopting different methods like granting free studentship, exemption of payment for a particular session, extending financial aid to the truly needy and the like. In this connection, the Students’Aid Fund plays an important role.

Students, who obtain high marks in B.Com., are awarded prizes in the form of books. Students participating in state-level competitions in the fields of study, sports and the like, are given awards and certificates as incentives on a regular basis. The J.N.Dutta Memorial Fund and the R.N.Saha Endowment Fund are constituted especially for this purpose.

The college has a well-organized Students' Union. The members of the union are class representatives who are elected by the general students of the college. The union actively takes part in games and sports and other social and cultural activities of the college and performs a positive function in communicating the cause of the students to the college administration.

The college has an NSS unit organized as per the guidelines formulated by Calcutta University. Constituted under the supervision of a qualified teacher, it plays a crucial role in conducting social awareness programmes and camps, as well as involving students in such melioristic activities like slum development and literacy drives. Recently the unit has successfully conducted a cataract detection as well as operation camp in expert collaboration with the Shankara Netralaya, and thus helped a number of needy and ailing people. It is also likely to figure in some useful collaboration in near future the information of which will be communicated through the regular updates of the website.

The college has organized seminars attended by eminent scholars on commerce-oriented subjects as well as areas of general interest. It has also arranged career-oriented lecture programmes as well as counselling programmes by prominent concerns linked to management studies, information technology and the print media. A series of such interactive programmes is on the anvil.

An encouraging patron of sports and games, the college organizes both indoor and outdoor competitions on a regular basis. The Annual Sports is a massive whole-day programme at the Calcutta University grounds. Apart from organizing various intra-college tournaments, the college regularly participates in several inter-college university and state-level tournaments and Athletic Meets. In year 2001-2002 for the first time in the history of the college, played at eden gardens and became runners in College Cricket Tournament organised by Cricket Association of Bengal under the leadership of College Game secretary of that time Mr. Abhijit Guha Ray.

Keeping in mind the overall development of the student community, the college tries to engage its students in cultural activities and functions at regular intervals. Apart from the usual 'Freshers' Welcome' and the Annual Fest, other functions befitting particular occasions and situations are arranged from time to time to encourage the students to showcase their talents as well as give scope to some healthy, competitive entertainment.

Every year the college organizes a blood-donation camp where a huge number of students voluntarily donate blood for a noble cause. The daylong programme also includes free E.C.G. tests. The college also has a tie-up with the Students’ Health Home, which offers medical facilities to the students. The college has lined up some Awareness Programmes the details of which will be duly flashed on the Web Page( Announcements). The college also arranges educational tours and excursions from time to time under the protective supervision of experienced staff members. A specially constituted committee oversees such affairs. CA Toppers are also from this College ...

There is an ambulance section called St. Peter's Ambulance brigade, which, apart from offering some courses to students, extends great service to the students and the staff alike. Such service ranges from giving First Aid to conducting ECG and similar other tests.

Since the college is affiliated to Calcutta University, it takes care to abide by the examination schedule chalked out by the university. Accordingly, any changes made by the university in the examination schedule, are bound to find corresponding changes in the examination schedule of the college. As per the recent directives of the university, the college has chalked out its examination schedule the outline of which is as follows:

a) Mid-term Test ( For all Classes and Years): in November b) College Test: i) For 1st Year Classes: in March ii) For 2nd Year Classes: in February iii) For 3rd Year Classes : in January

According to the same directives, the Information Technology Examination for the 2nd Year students will take place in April.

The college abides by the set of norms specified by Calcutta University for colleges under its jurisdiction, according to which, students, who attend 75% of classes per year, are declared eligible to sit for university examinations. In order to enable the students to attend classes on a regular basis and improve upon their percentage of attendance, the college conducts periodic checks of the same at regular intervals. This procedure is adopted to put the students wise about the classes they are required to attend.

In order to keep the teacher-student rapport perfect, address the difficulties, grievances and suggestions of the students and redress them in the best ways possible, as well as to keep parents abreast of the progress made by their wards, the college arranges interactive sessions from time to time. The institution has made provisions for a Students' Grievance Redressal Cell under the supervision of teachers, which will work as an important forum to level any differences either party has. A suggestion box in which students might drop their constructive suggestions with a select group of teachers surveying and scanning them will come directly under the purview of such a Cell.