History of the College

The name chosen for the college ‘AI -Ameen Memorial Minority College’ bears a special significance. The Arabic term (AI-Ameen) in the language of Logic is Connotative. It bears both denotation and connotation. AI-Ameen denotes specially a particular person, the Islamic Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (Peace be upon him) who was given the very name in his boyhood by all the people irrespective of friends and foes of his motherland, Mecca. The term connotes a very good moral attribute TRUSTWORTHINESS belonging to the Prophet (P.B.U.H). The AI -Ameen Memorial Minority College was, therefore, established recalling AI -Ameen, the essential quality of the Prophet (P.B.U.H). Would to God that our college may become trustworthy to the people at large, in respect of imparting intellectual and quality, moral and cultural, modern and advanced higher education to the students belonging to different castes and creed, and thereby, forming true citizens of our motherland, India.
AI-Ameen Memorial Minority College is a notably noble achievement of the AI-Ameen Memorial Society for Education & Health Programme. It was founded in the year 2004. The College is a brain-child of its founder, Late Prof. Md. Roushan Ali, a patron of letters, a far-sighted and noble heart philanthropist. The impediment of his old age did not stand on his way up till his demise to offer encouragement and valuable suggestions every now and then to the founder Secretary of the College Prof. Dr. Nurul Haque to bring it to its full flaged state. With an aim to imparting education (Higher Education) among the educationally backward minorities of West Bengal but not to the exclusion of the students of other communities, the Society humbly prayed to the Govt. of West Bengal for according necessary permission for the establishment of a Minority College under the Article 30 of the Constitution of India. The state Govt. after necessary verification and with the kind recommendation of the Hon’ble National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, New Delhi, kindly accorded requisite permission to the establishment of the College with self-financed and Minority status in 2007. Subsequently the Minority Status Certificate was also issued by the NCMEI in 2008. This Minority status of the college still holds good. We are very much happy to apprise that AI-Ameen Memorial Minority College is the first Muslim Minority General Degree College of West Bengal. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It is a co-educational institution for higher learning. The College was included Under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956, in 2008 and under Section 12B of the same act in 2018. The college was granted affiliation by the University in the academic session 2007. It now offers the subjects like Arabic (Hons.), Bengali (Hons.), English (Hons.), History (Hons.), Islamic History and Culture (Hons.) and Philosophy (Hons.) and Arabic (General), Bengali (General), English (General), History (General), Political Science (General), Philosophy (General), Education (General) and Urdu (General). We are grateful to the University of Calcutta for kindly granting Permanent affiliation of the College in 2018. The College was included under the West Bengal Colleges (Payment of Salaries) Act, 1978 in the year 2012.