Raja Balwant Singh College

Raja Balwant Singh College is located at Bichpuri, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. The college is affiliated to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow.

Raja Balwant Singh College, Agra
TypeGovernment Aided
Established1885
Location
Agra
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
AffiliationsDr. B. R. Ambedkar University & Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Websiterbscollegeagra.edu.in & fetrbs.org

The college has its beginning as a small boarding house for the Rajput community in 1885, before becoming a high school in 1899, an Intermediate College in 1928, and a Degree College in 1940. It is the first college in India to award a postgraduate degree in agriculture.

RBS College has eight faculties - Arts, Commerce, Education, Science, Agriculture, Engineering pharmacy and Technology, and Management and Computer Application, and six campuses - three in Agra itself besides Bichpuri, Mathura and Awagarh.

Affiliation

The institute is affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU). Prior to the formation of UPTU, the institute was affiliated to Dr. B. R. Ambedakar University Agra (formerly Agra University), Agra for the award of B.Tech. degree.

History

Established in 1885, Raja Balvant Singh College owes its existence to Raja Balwant Singh of Awagarh who enabled the institution to grow as one of the oldest and biggest colleges of Uttar Pradesh.[1]

Raja Balwant Singh College, formerly known as Balwant Rajput College, was started with the help of Raja Balwant Singh of Awagarh Estate, Etah, Uttar Pradesh. It started in 1878 as Rajput Boarding House for education and upliftment of Rajputs of India. In 1885, it was upgraded as Balwant Rajput High School in 1899,[2] with Col. Dobson and Sir E.H. Forsyth as headmasters, and Rajput community given preference.

Balwant Educational Society was created to safeguard the interests of the institution. Raja Sahib insisted that the president of the society will always be the District Judge of Agra, and that the Civil Surgeon of Agra and District Inspector of Schools, Agra would be its permanent members out of the 21 members.

Dr. S.C. Sircar, homeopath, was its first Indian headmaster. In about 1934, Dr. R.K. Singh took over as principal of the Intermediate College. He started its expansion and in 1941 Balwant Rajput Intermediate College was the first in Uttar Pradesh to have faculties of Arts, Commerce, Science, and Agriculture.

An education wing was started and within two years it was raised to postgraduate level. He established Bichpuri Institute of Agriculture at Bichpuri, Agra and a Research Center of Agriculture at Awagarh Farm of 400 acres donated by Raja Sahib's grandson.

In 1949 R.K. Singh started the Rural Engineering Institute at Bichpuri.[3] Raja Balwant Singh had also donated more than 100 acres in Agra for agriculture known as Khandari Farm, attached to Rajput High School. The present building of RBS Inter College was formerly known as Nachghar Kothi and was the residence of the headmaster. The school was run in the present college building.

R.K. Singh removed the special preference for Rajputs but this enraged Raja Surya Pal Singh, son of Raja Balwant Singh, who curtailed major financial help to Balwant Educational Society and divested his funds to Shantiniketan and Kishori Raman College, Mathura.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the first US president to visit India, came to this college with former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A research lab for space science and seismo-electromagnetics is running on the Bichpuri campus and headed by Dr. Birbal Singh.[4]

An article published on 29 March 1965 in USA by Star News mentioned about Balwant Rajput College in Bichpuri. It's based on the life of Dr. William S. Stewart who worked as lecturer at the college.[5]

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

The Faculty of Engineering and Technology (also known as FETRBS Agra), located in Bichpuri campus, is 14 km from the city of Taj Agra. It is one of seven faculties of RBS College located in Agra. It was founded in 1996 and the first students graduated in the year 2000.

The institute offers B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) courses in the following disciplines:

The institute offers M.Tech. (Master of Technology) courses in the following discipline:

  • Food Technology (FT)
  • Dairy Technology (DT)
  • Electronics & Comm. (ECE)
  • Computer science & Engg. (CSE)
  • Bio Technology (BT)

Notable alumni

Events

Students organise the annual events ABHYUDAYA.This comprises

References
  1. "RBS college celebrates 166th founder's day, 650-seater mega auditorium inaugurated". The Times of India. 22 September 2018.
  2. "About RBS". Raja Balwant Singh College.
  3. "N. K. Anant Rao (1915–2004)" (PDF). Current Science. 87 (10). 25 November 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.
  4. "Faculty profile" (PDF). Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011.
  5. LONG, Nancy (29 March 1965). "ARCADIA Stewarts Describe Their life in India". Star News.

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