K D College of Commerce, Paschim Medinipur was established in 1961. Its affiliated to Vidyasagar University.

This is the the only college then in both Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur district engaged in imparting commerce education exclusively is the pioneer in NAAC assessment. The college was accredited "B+" Grade by the NAAC peer Team visiting the college in September, 2004.

The college offers three years Bachelor Degree in both Honours and General Courses in Commerce & Arts as recommended by the West Bengal State Council of Higher Education. The aim of the college is to impart and encourage comprehensive education of high standard in different branches of learning and to provide the students with an atmosphere to acquire ethical & more values.

The college is involved to emphasize community based programme and work on social issues. The college is well equipped with all modern facilities. A variety of teaching and learning techniques are employed to impart knowledge and skills to the students of the college.

The college is affiliated to Vidyasagar University, established in 1981. The University was named after one of the most illustrious sons of Bengal as well as one of the doyens of Indian Renaissance, Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, has grown out of a long cultural and educational movement in West Bengal. The idea of founding a University in the district was mooted by the various organizations, notably by the Regional Education Association, Midnapore, headed by Professor A.K.Gayen of IIT, Kharagpur.

The University was established with a mission to fulfill the higher mainstream education needs of the region.

A decade has passed since the assessment and accreditation of the college with B+ Grade by National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) of University Grants Commission (UGC). It may appear to be a delay on the part of the college for the 2^nd Cycle.

But the decade is momentous as it has witnessed a root and branch transformation of the college – a makeover from “Kaibalyadayini College of Commerce” to “K. D. College of Commerce and General Studies”, a metamorphosis of a single Faculty-College into a college of eight Departments.

VISION

The lamp of learning in the logo of the college was notionally lighted by Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore during his two-night’s stay in the present room no. 4 of the college building (the then garden house of the zamindar of Ramgarh) in his short sojourn to Midnapore town for inaugurating Vidyasagar Smriti Mandir on 16^th December, 1939. The college building was also blessed with the touch of the lotus-feet of many legendary persons, viz. Tarasankar Bandopadhyay, Amiya Chakraborty,  Kshitimohan Sen Shastri, Sajani Kanta Das, Sir Yadunath Sarkar, Krishna Kripalani, Ramananda Chattopadhyay, Anil Kumar Chanda, Sudha Kanta Roy Chowdhury, Raghubir Singha, Bajendranath Bandopadhyay, Pabitra Gangopadhyay, Nalini Kanta Sarkar, Radhakomal Singha, Sati Debi, Jaya Das, Bijoya Das, Hasi Mukhopadhyay, Sagarmoy Ghosh, Sujit Ranjan Roy, Anadi Ghosh Dastidar and the like.

The inheritance of such a pristine glory determined the vision of the college at the time of its actual inception in the building and has successfully guided it to blossom out into a multidisciplinary college in the last six decades or so.  And it is easily discernible in the changing name of the college from “College of Commerce” to “Kaibalyadayini College of Commerce” and finally to “K. D. College of Commerce and General Studies”. Thus, rooted in Tagore, the academic vision of the college is one of materialising the words of the bard – “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence”. Our college envisages the systematic promotion, expansion and implementation of that kind of education the cultivation of which flowers one with the acquisition of knowledge and skill and with “the manifestation of the perfection already in man” (as envisioned by Swami Vivekananda), leading to the progress of mankind and the prosperity of society. 

MISSION

To Provide quality education to all students.

To attain new heights of teaching-learning research and extension activities.

To boost up the co-curricular and extra-curricular knack of students.

To impart value-added education and scientific knowledge.

To inculcate creative and critical spirit in students.

To infuse in students the sense of liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy and nationalism.

To fortify the backward students from the areas of nearby Jungle Mahal with proper education and skill.

To uplift students from Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Minority communities upon a solid foundation of prosperity and secularism.

To empower the girl-students by imparting them higher education and knowledge.

To cater to the needs of physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual growth of all.