The vision of this very young institution is to serve our society by empowering women. We strongly believe that education is power, and true education is not confined within only syllabus and degree. For us, information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom; true knowledge enables a person to look beyond here and now. This ‘looking beyond here and now’ is the basic tenet of sustainability, which is the need of the hour at present. Keeping sustainability as a goal we want to impart that education to our students which will enable them to become complete human beings and true global citizens. A complete human being, according to our vision, is one who is both aware of her rights and duties. On the one hand we sensitize our students regarding their legal rights, constitutional rights, their rights to have an environment which is free from all kinds of discrimination, free from ragging and sexual harassment. On the other hand, we make them aware of their various duties; duties towards themselves which includes determination to be financially independent, their duties towards other persons, towards her country, towards her environment and above all towards the whole nature. And the person who is dutiful towards the whole nature treats everything and everyone as the part of one nature, forgetting the geographical and political boundaries, and thus becomes a true global citizen. Being deeply rooted into our own culture, we want to imbibe into our students the ideal set by Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls…” It is our sincere hope that when our students go out of our institution after completion of their courses they go out as knowledgeable, skillful, self-reliant, imbibed with moral values and in this way, we dream of ushering in heaven on earth in this country, as envisaged by Tagore.
With the above-mentioned vision, we have the following mission.
Sister Nibedita Governmemt General Degree College for Girls is a new addition in the map of women education of Bengal. This college is situated in Hastings House, whose vast campus has already been a hub of women education; as it had a higher secondary school for girls, two teacher training colleges and an institute for physical education for women. The only thing the campus lacked was a general degree college for girls, which was fulfilled by the establishment of our college.
Affiliated to the University of Calcutta this young institution aspires to be a strong source of women empowerment.