The Potentiality of Asansol as an industrial metropolitan Centre had been realized from the very beginning of the 20th century. The need of the day was to give the region a boost in higher education to facilities its growth and development. It was Prof. Satyakali Mukherjee who had submitted a proposal for the first time for opening a college in Asansol in 1944 to the existing Chairman of Asansol Municipality, Mr. Jogendranath Roy and the then SDO, Mr. Woodford, I.C.S.