Sreegopal Banerjee College, also known as Baghati College, is one of the oldest colleges in Mogra, in the Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to University of Burdwan. It was established in 1958. The geographical location of the college is latitude 22°59' North and longitude 88°22' East. Its height from sea level is 38 feet.
History
The college is named after the father of late Shib Chandra Banerjee, the well known civil engineer of all India repute who offered a munificent donation of land and cash to the West Bengal Government to enable the latter to establish a co-educational degree college under the "Sponsored" Scheme at his native village, Bagati. Bagati, the seat of the College, is located in an area that has a history of its own. The village itself is the native place of Ram Gopal Ghosh, the Demosthenes of Bengal. The scholar Jagannath Tarkapanchanan lived in Tribeni within a mile from the site of the college. The stretch of land along the Ganga from Katwa to Bansberia, lying on the eastern fringe of Bagati, is the birthplace of Navya-Nyaya, the most powerful and brilliant school of Indian Logic & Pride of Indian Scholarship. The college is located halfway between Tribeni and Magra, about a mile from both the railway stations on the Eastern Railway. It is also approachable by roads, connected by buses. The village is surrounded by a vast industrial belt and presents a combination of peaceful rural charm with modern facilities. The college at the outset was housed in the building of Ramgopal GhoshHigh School, Bagati. It started functioning on 21 July 1958. It was shifted to the present three-storied building on 24 April 1959. The college has by now developed into one of the biggest institutions under the University of Burdwan. There are modern hostels for boys and girls within the campus.There is also a separate two storied building within the campus for the students' common room-cum-canteen. With the mission of providing quality education, the college firmly believes that excellence of institutions of higher education is a function of many aspects of which self-evaluation and self-improvement are important. Professor Narayan Ch Ghosh, Sunil Khan, Harisadhan Dey Adhikary, Ambikesh Mahapatra taught there.
