Our Anecdote
It was year 2003. Medinipur got divided in two parts just a year back. Undivided Medinipur was globally recognised for it’s brilliant minds like Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scientist Mani Bhowmik, revolutionary Khudiram Bose, poet & writer Suryakant Tripathi, sculptor Chintamoni Kar and many more. Medinipur also houses world's premium Institute like Indian Institute of Technology that nurtures country's best brain and minds. Like a lamp has shadow behind the lights, Medinipur also had a socially, economically, educationally down trodden area which was not much discussed about. But, some people here, witnessed the same, felt the pain and dreamt of removing the darkness from this under privileged community who were deprived of basic needs of life and enlighten their lives. Upliſting people's life can only be possible with education.
Hence, was established Gopsai Avinandan Sangha with a noble aim of accelerating primarily the life of under privileged area of the district and several other parts of state as well. With that aim, Gopsai Avinandan Sangha initiated building a job oriented educational institution in Chandrakona Town that would educate the local people and also arrange the job that would change their economic condition. A vacant nonagricultural Dahi land was earmarked, procured aſter completing all legal formalities and basic survey work. Thus began the journey, journey of struggle to turn the dream into reality. To make the best construction, best engineers and work force were hired from city. But sanctioning of total plan, construction, making infrastructure, providing facilities of an TEI demanded more than the budgeted amount and first obstacle faced was deficit of fund. It was a mammoth task, took lot many sleepless nights but as dreams are dreamt to be true, Gopsai Avinandan Sangha triumphed over all the hindrances. But alas! what was more distressing and agonising was to face the impediments created by some local residents, for whom all these struggles were all about. Nevertheless, we accepted it as a blessing in disguise that inspired us to start the ‘Awareness program’ ..…. Awareness for a better life, awareness for the need of higher education, need of job centric course for youths. Also, we started literacy program amongst their predecessors. Thus, with two years of constant hard work & dedication, passion & patience, toil & moil, the dream came true in 2005 in the form of Gopsai Avinandan Sangha PTTI, the first self-financed primary teachers' training institute. The journey of introducing job-oriented education, creating future teachers, zeal of delivering the society a better tomorrow continues. It was felt that the locality as well as the district lack technically sound workforce whereas it was a demand of the society. To comply with that, Institute of Science and Technology was established in the year 2005 with an aim to impart technical education in form of Engineering and Management. Also, aſter Primary Teachers' training it was necessary to introduce Degree course in Teachers' education. So was established Bengal College of Teacher Education in 2007 with B.Ed and later in 2018 it started M.Ed degree as well.
The effort of years started showing its results; students started coming from various parts of the district, and neighbouring states. Scarcity of seats in GAS PTTI and enthusiasm of students has encouraged us to open up another Institution for Primary Teachers'' Training in the year 2012 named as College for Teacher Education. Similarly B.Ed college was the demand of students and that led us to start our journey beyond Chandrakona Town. Considering the ease of communication, transportation and students' eagerness to pursue B.Ed course, two B.Ed colleges were established in Bhadutala and Chhoto Dabcha named Anindita College for Teacher Education & Excellent College for Teacher Education respectively. In the same year another B.Ed college, College for Teacher Education was founded in the c ampu s tha t ne s tl e d o the r ins tit u ti ons a s well.Meanwhile, another horizon of job-oriented education was seen. India was experiencing shortage of healthcare professionals and pharmacists. Healthcare delivery system was undergoing rapid changes creating immense demand for healthcare-oriented people and thus provided great career opportunities. That was the area which could provide immediate scope of job aſter the education. Thus, to extend the continuous service towards mankind, P G Institute of Medical Sciences was established in the year 2017 with Pharmacy and then it added Paramedical in 2020. Job oriented education in healthcare sector cannot be completed without Nursing education. Moreover, this stream creates scope of job and serves humanity at the same time. So, how could we not explore creating these noble professionals! Anindita Institution for Nursing has been established in the year 2021 to impart nursing education and make the students ready for job immediately aſter completion of the course.But that's not end. We are yet to be complacent and our journey continues. We still have future plans and are committed to ourselves to come up with many more Institutions that will offer new opportunity and thus our spirit of serving the society will continue today, tomorrow and forever.