Sovarani Memorial College has started its journey on 1st December, 1971, at the picturesque village of Goalpota under Jagatballavpur Block in Howrah district. The college-campus spread over more than 3 acres of land stands beautiful on the bank of the river ˜Kana Damodar", which is only 35 k.m. away from Kolkata.

At the very beginning , the college had no building of its own. The classes were started in one of the historic residential buildings of Satyanarayan Khan at Goalpota village from the session 1971-72. As a Degree College affiliated to the University of Calcutta, it offered general subjects like Bengali, English, Philosophy, Political Science and History at the undergraduate level and Commerce at the Pre-University level. Over last more than four decades, there has been a huge change in the scenario. Now, 10 Honours subjects and 15 (exclusive of Commerce subjects) General subjects are being taught. The college has been a Stude-Centre for PG-courses (Distance Mode) in 3 subjects namely Bengali, English and History under Vidyasagar University.