Sivanath Sastri College, Kolkata, owes its origin to the City Group of Colleges. It is one of the oldest first-grade colleges in Bengal. The City College was founded in the year 1879 by a band of patriotic and dedicated workers headed by Late Ananda Mohan Bose, It has a long record of brilliant results and this claim is evident from its alumni crowded by many noble and illustrious daughters of Bengal.The Commerce Department of the College was inaugurated in 1939 and South Calcutta Branch of the Commerce Department started in 1946 as an emergency measure to provide facilities to the students of South Calcutta. The morning classes for women were started in the South Calcutta Branch in 1955. This unit named after the hallowed memory of Late Pandit Sivanath Sastri, an illustrious son of Bengal, was separately affiliated in 1961 to the University of Calcutta. Since then the College has had no occasion to look back. Expansion in all branches of its activities took place steadily and regularly. New subjects were introduced and many of them with Honours teaching affiliations. Soon the reputation of the institution spread far and wide with long and sustained record.
During the brief period of 50 years, this Women’s Branch has been catering immensely to the growing needs of the women students, many of whom might otherwise have been deprived of higher education.
Besides imparting instruction in the humanities and a few science subjects it has arrangements for full-fledged commerce education up to the undergraduate level. The success of all the arrangements has been amply borne out by the long and sustained record of brilliant achievements of the students in all University Examinations and placements. The college is now a government aided educational institution.
