Jamini Roy College

Jamini Roy College was founded in December, 1986 at Beliatore, a small town in the Bankura District of West Bengal. The College is affiliated to the University of Burdwan and is managed by a democratically constituted statutory Governing Body as per guideline of Higher Education Directorate, Govt. of West Bengal. Beliatore is the birth place of the renowned artist Jamini Roy, who opened new vistas in Indian Painting by Combining Folk Art forms with the modern spirit of individualism and expeimentation. He is justly regarded one of the pioneers of Modern Art in India and it is a source of pride that the College is named after him.