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Bethune College has been placed in the 74th position in the College Category in NIRF ranking (2022). It is the only Government College from West Bengal to feature among the first hundred colleges in the country.
Bethune has a population of 400 people and growing. The village takes its name from C.B. Bethune, the engineer on the first train to travel the railway in 1887.The original station was built near the centre of Section 24 Twp 20 RG 24 W2, which is at the centre of the current town site.
The Bethune School founded by J.E.D. Bethune at Calcutta (1849) was the first fruit of a powerful movement for education of women which arose in the 1840s and 1850s. Mostly due to Bethune’s efforts, girls’ schools were set up on a sound footing and brought under government’s grants-in- aid and inspection system.
Mar 25, 2017 · Born in Cheshire, son of Col. John Drinkwater Bethune of Salford, John was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. His mother, Eleanor Congalton, was a woman of erudition and right from his childhood he had liberal thoughts Having become qualified for bar, he got an administrative position in Parliament.That he was proficient in Greek, Latin, German, French and Italian earned fame and helped him get a job in India.
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Nov 18, 2023 · Bethune is a short distance from England via the Eurotunnel or cross-Channel ferries. In fact, a British magazine recently began its article entitled “10 things to visit in France at Christmas” with the Bethune Christmas market. Between the Belfry and the illuminated facades of the main square, the festive event takes on a fairy-tale ...
Aug 14, 2020 · According to Kalidas Naga’s writings in ‘Bethune School And College Centenary Volume 1849’ published in 1949, “none but the girls of respectable Hindus would be admitted”. A school carriage was arranged to transport the girls who lived at a distance to and fro from school. John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, who founded the Bethune college.
