28th January, Foundation Day of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital

☑ Founder, Foundation and Ancient History of Calcutta (Kolkata) Medical College and Hospital: 

Calcutta Medical College, officially a medical college and hospital, is a public medical school and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The Institute was established on 28 January 1835 as Lord William Bentinck Medical College, Bengal during the British state.

It is the second oldest medical college teaching Western medicine in Asia, after Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry, and the first institution to teach English.  The hospital attached to the college is the largest hospital in West Bengal.  The college offers an MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training.

✡ Rankings:- 

In 2019, the college was ranked 19th among medical colleges in India by Outlook India.

In 2021, for the first time among medical institutions, Kolkata is ranked 32nd by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). [2]

✡ Politics: -

Student politics is rooted in tradition, many students participated in the Indian independence struggle.  The anti-British movement was implemented through the program of the Bengal branch of the Bengal Provincial Students Federation (BPSF), [5] the All India Students Federation.
Student politics was primarily focused on India's independence.  In 1947, college student Shri Dhirranjan Sen was shot dead by police on Vietnam Day.  In March 1947, the Vietnam Students' Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in Sen's memory.

During and after the partition of India, student politics was heavily influenced by the Partition of Bengal and communal riots. Between 1946 and 1952, college doctors stood for communal harmony and worked hard in the refugee colonies.
In 1952, alumni of the college, among them Bidhan Chandra Roy who became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, established the Students Health Home for the welfare of the students.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the college became the centre of leftist and far-left politics.  Student politics was heavily influenced by the Naxalite uprising in the early 1970s.

✡ Development: -

In August 2003, the then Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj agreed in principle to upgrade MCH, Kolkata in the style of AIIMS.

👉(This article is Written by Titas Chakrabarty and collected from him.)