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		<title>-&gt;Pinakpani: /* History */ history section modified, clean up</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;History: &lt;/span&gt; history section modified, clean up&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mirik College&#039;&#039;&#039;, established in 2000, is a government-run degree college in [[Mirik]], [[Darjeeling district]], [[India]]. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to the [[University of North Bengal]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= Colleges under University of North Bengal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091951/http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= |date=2016-03-04 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mirik College&#039;&#039;&#039;, established in 2000, is a government-run degree college in [[Mirik]], [[Darjeeling district]], [[India]]. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to the [[University of North Bengal]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= Colleges under University of North Bengal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091951/http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= |date=2016-03-04 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was initiated by Mirik Citizens Committee which was established in 1972 By Mr B. B. Lama and Mr. Sagar B Subba with the objective to establish a degree college as well as to establish a Girls High School in Mirik. In 1993 &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Mr [[&lt;/del&gt;Lal Bahadur Dewan&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;an environmentalist and retired manager of Murma tea Estate Jiund the committee as &lt;/del&gt;secretary&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. During his tanure the efforts gained momentum and it was the time of Hon’ble &lt;/del&gt;Mr. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;[[Jyoti Basu]] &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;as the Chief Minister of West Bengal when he &lt;/del&gt;was advised to form a Degree college Organising Committee by Minister of State Shri Dawa Lama. This committee was constituted in February 1996 &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;under president-ship of Mr J P Gurung and Secretary-ship of Mr L B Dewan. It took them 4 long years to get the permission for opening a degree college&lt;/del&gt;. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;On 5 March 2000 Mr Asok Bhhatacharya the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;MLA and &lt;/del&gt;state cabinet minister announced the constitution of Mirik College and an old dilapidated building of Agriculture Marketing Cooperative Society was provided by the District magistrate of Darjeeling for running the classes. The college was affiliated with North Bengal University &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Silliguri. With this announcement of the Degree College, the Organising Committee was dissolved and the Mirik College Managing Committee was formed.  This committee was chaired by District Magistrate of Darjeeling (DM Anil Verma at that time) as President and Sub Divisional Officer Kurseong (SDO Rajiv Kumar IAS) as working president. Mr Dewan again was elected as secretary of the managing committee and worked there till 2004&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was initiated by Mirik Citizens Committee which was established in 1972 By Mr B. B. Lama and Mr. Sagar B Subba with the objective to establish a degree college as well as to establish a Girls High School in Mirik. In 1993&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, During his tenure of &lt;/ins&gt;Lal Bahadur Dewan, secretary&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, Citizens Committee, &lt;/ins&gt;Mr. [[Jyoti Basu]] was advised to form a Degree college Organising Committee by Minister of State Shri Dawa Lama. This committee was constituted in February 1996. On 5 March 2000 Mr Asok Bhhatacharya the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;then &lt;/ins&gt;state cabinet minister announced the constitution of Mirik College and an old dilapidated building of Agriculture Marketing Cooperative Society was provided by the District magistrate of Darjeeling for running the classes. The college was affiliated with &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;North Bengal University&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Departments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Departments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mirik College&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, established in 2000, is a government-run degree college in [[Mirik]], [[Darjeeling district]], [[India]]. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to the [[University of North Bengal]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= Colleges under University of North Bengal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091951/http://www.nbu.ac.in/Affiliated%20Colleges.htm?st= |date=2016-03-04 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
It was initiated by Mirik Citizens Committee which was established in 1972 By Mr B. B. Lama and Mr. Sagar B Subba with the objective to establish a degree college as well as to establish a Girls High School in Mirik. In 1993 Mr [[Lal Bahadur Dewan]], an environmentalist and retired manager of Murma tea Estate Jiund the committee as secretary. During his tanure the efforts gained momentum and it was the time of Hon’ble Mr.  [[Jyoti Basu]] as the Chief Minister of West Bengal when he was advised to form a Degree college Organising Committee by Minister of State Shri Dawa Lama. This committee was constituted in February 1996 under president-ship of Mr J P Gurung and Secretary-ship of Mr L B Dewan. It took them 4 long years to get the permission for opening a degree college.  On 5 March 2000 Mr Asok Bhhatacharya the MLA and state cabinet minister announced the constitution of Mirik College and an old dilapidated building of Agriculture Marketing Cooperative Society was provided by the District magistrate of Darjeeling for running the classes. The college was affiliated with North Bengal University Silliguri. With this announcement of the Degree College, the Organising Committee was dissolved and the Mirik College Managing Committee was formed.  This committee was chaired by District Magistrate of Darjeeling (DM Anil Verma at that time) as President and Sub Divisional Officer Kurseong (SDO Rajiv Kumar IAS) as working president. Mr Dewan again was elected as secretary of the managing committee and worked there till 2004.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Departments==&lt;br /&gt;
* English&lt;br /&gt;
* Nepali&lt;br /&gt;
* History&lt;br /&gt;
* Geography&lt;br /&gt;
* Political Science&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[List of institutions of higher education in West Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Education in India]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Education in West Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.mirikcollege.org www.mirikcollege.org]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.nbu.ac.in/ University of North Bengal]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.ugc.ac.in/ University Grants Commission]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.naac.gov.in/ National Assessment and Accreditation Council]&lt;br /&gt;
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