History
The Department of Banking was opened in 1973 when Commerce Stream was introduced. The founder teacher of the Department was Ramesh Das who sincerely served till his retirement in 2014. Later, he was joined by Sankar Dasgupta, Utpalananda Deka, Mahesh Kedia and Nayanendra Narayan Devchoudhury and Archana Bhattacharjya. Unfortunately, Deka died at a very young age. Every year a good number of students secure first class in this subject in the university examinations. Soni Chachan became University topper in 2002 in B. Com. Final Examination.
Facilities
The department shares the common PG Library of the Commerce Stream as well as the Central Library of the college. The PG Library of the Commerce Stream has a collection of more than 5000 books. There is a partial provision of audio-visual teaching aids like LCD Projector. Reprography and scanning facilities are available.
Activities
The department regularly organizes Group Discussions, Seminars among the students within the department. The faculties of this department offer informal counselling to students from time to time. Occasionally, the department organizes field trip or exposure visit for students to various places. The department also co-operates in activities of Commerce Forum which felicitates the outstanding students and organizes Freshmen Social and Farewell Meeting for the Commerce students.
Examination Results
NET/SET/JRF/GATE/GRE Qualifier : (2011-2017) : NET - 4, SET- 3