Ambedkar Bihar University, is a state university located in the north prime of Bihar state in the city of Muzaffarpur in India. Braj Mohan Das College, established in the year 1968 in a remote village of the District of Vaishali, Dayalpur, is a constituent unit of B.R.A. The idea of the College originated in the minds of Late Brahmadeo Pd. Singh Late, Bharat Singh, Late Shyam Sundar Singh of Daya
lpur, Rajendra Roy of Raja Pakar – all freedom fighters and social activists, and Sri Shambhu Nath Singh of Dayalpur and Prahlad Singh of Ismailpur – both educationists. All of them were very much concerned about the poor Socio-economic conditions of the people, especially the young ones, of this area, and, at the same time were aware of the fact that only better educational facilities could improve their conditions. They succeeded in translating the idea into action with the help from two benevolent local monks Mahant Braj Mohan Das (the College has been named after him) of Ismailpur Math who donated the required affiliation fee and Mahant Yugal Kishore Das of Sapaha Math who donated the required Land. Thus the College came into being as the only institution of higher learning first of its kind in an absolute rural set-up in 1968. The College retained the status of an affiliated unit of the University till 1980 when it was taken over by the Government of Bihar, and after that it became, and continues to be, a constituent unit of the same University. The College is set-up in a calm, peaceful and serene environment of a village and has campus of more than five acres full of greeneries. Infrastructurally, it has an administrative block accommodating the office of the College and a few class-rooms, the two-storied Science block accommodating the Science Labs and class-rooms for the students of the Science faculty, two interconnected new blocks, accommodating a conference-room, a larger class-room, a computer lab, Principal’s Chamber, Teachers’ Room and a Bursar / Accountant office. Its premises also witness a double-storied Men’s Hostel and Women’s Hostel, a common-room facilitating indoor-games for the students a bicycle-stand, a small canteen and an adequate sports-ground. Its qualified faculty-members and the non-teaching staff are all committed to the fulfilment of the noble cause the college has been founded for ;their disciplined competence and strong bonds with the college has enabled it to keep away the ill- effects of prevailing deficiencies in higher education . The College has successfully organised a number of national and state-level seminars and conferences from time to time. In 1988-89 it organised Ministry of Human Resources (GOI)-sponsored Lecture Series, centred on Political idea and policy of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, to commemorate his birth-centenary. In 1992, a national conference on Environment was organised in collaboration with the Mendalian Society of India. In 1993-94, while celebrating its Silver Jubilee, it organised a state-level seminar on the Realities and Desirabilities of Higher Education in Bihar. On that very occasion the maiden issue of the College, ‘Swayamprabha’ was released by none other than the His Highness the Governor of Bihar and the Chancellor of the Universities of Bihar, Dr A.R.Kidwai, during his visit to the College to inaugurate the Silver Jubilee functions and the seminar organised on the occasion. At his initiative, the College organised a UGC-sponsored three-day Seminar on the topic ‘Gandhi: Mithak Nahin, Yathartha’ to commemorate, the 125th berth-anniversary of Bapu in 1995. Simultaneously it also organised an Inter-College Quiz Competition and an Inter-College Essay Competition based on the life and thought of Mahatma at the University-level in which a large number of students from different Colleges participation and winners were awarded by the Chancellor. In 2005, an UGC funded seminar, a seminar on ‘Aromatic plants and their use’ was organised by the Deptt. of Botany .In 2011 the department of botany was interested with the responsibility conducting a sensitization program, sponsored by DST,Govt. of India,New Delhi on WOS-A scheme of women scientists. In addition to the above mentioned programms, the College frequently organized talks by eminent persons on health awareness programmes etc. In the field of sports and games, the College regularly participates in the events organised at the University level. For years the College volley-ball team have won the Championship Shield / Runner-up Shield several times. In athletics and cricket the College teams have performed. At the College level, several sports activities, including the Annual Athletic Meet, are regularly organised and the students of the College have shown great interest in such activities.
