It is indeed a great pleasure and joy for me to be a part of the Nandalal Ghosh B.T. College, Panpur, North 24 Parganas, an institution of higher learning in West Bengal. As a teacher training College, it is relentlessly serving the nation since 1968. I gratefully acknowledge the vision and contributions of those benevolent donors and enthusiastic members who conceived and founded the college in such a locality to train and prepare the skilled and dedicated teachers who afterwards could be the change makers, in the nation building process.

I also appreciate the immense support, sacrifice and contributions of the local people. successive principals and administrators, teachers and staff that have kept the College going all these years I am thankful to those alumni, who passed out of the college, not only with their degrees but also with certain unique skills and wholesome values. I am sure, they must have made a difference in their world of work while serving the State of West Bengal and India as well in various capacities. I take this opportunity to tell the young and aspiring students that there is hardly any profession as noble as teaching. "A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops" Moreover, teachers are not born but made and their training is essential. Post Covid-19 situation has posed daunting challenges for teaching and learning.

There is a pressing need for a paradigm shift in the pedagogy. Apart from content competency, technology adoption and absorption of human values are of paramount importance. We are all set to build, maintain and provide an ambience in the college that is academically sound and administratively quick, efficient and transparent. 'Come to Learn and Go to Serve'

Sri Somenath Shyam Ichini
President, Nandalal Ghosh B.T. College