Dr Triguna Sen was born on 24 December 1905 at Sylhet (now part of Bangladesh).· The prestigious national honour of Padma Bhushan was conferred on him in 1965. In 1967 he was inducted into the Union Cabinet as the Minister for Education. It was during his tenure in 1968 as Education Minister, the National Education Policy was formulated. The National Council of Education, Bengal, is the parent body of the Jadavpur University.
The National Council of Education (or NCE) was an organisation founded by Indian nationalists in Bengal in 1906 to promote science and technology as part of a swadeshi industrialisation movement. It established the Bengal National College and Bengal Technical Institute which would later merge to form Jadavpur University. Institutions functioning under the Council were considered to be hotbeds of swadeshi activities and the government banned nationalistic activities such as the singing of patriotic songs.
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