The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning, and Administration has come into existence by virtue of the Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented by the Governor. The Act has been known as the West Bengal Act XXI of 2014; The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration Act, 2014 (published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, January 16, 2015). this is one of the biggest universities of its kind with 457 affiliation colleges at present under the Vice-Chancellorship of Prof.(Dr.) Soma Bandyopadhyay.