West Bengal State University is a newly established university situated in Barasat, West Bengal, India. All the 59 colleges(including UG,PG & B-ED) in the district of North 24 Parganas, which were formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta, are affiliated to this university. The Government of West Bengal has through an Act of the Legislative Assembly has passed West Bengal Act XXVIII of 2007 implementing a long standing public demand in creating the University named "West Bengal State University (Barasat,North 24 Paragans)" This became functional from the academic session 2008-09. On 26 May 2008 there are 57 colleges formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta have been, through a government notification (No.300-Edn(U)/ IU-38/08), transferred to this new university..Please find the PUBLIC NOTICE ON STATE UNIVERSITIES- UGC- 25.08.2010 (http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/stateuni.html) The campus of the university is now being constructed at Berunanpukuria and the university operates from there. All the thirty postgraduate course classes have already started there.The girls' hostel is in the process of being completed but would not be ready before November 2011.