About GP Women’s College

Establishment of the Ghanapriya Women’s College, Imphal popularly known as G.P. Women’s College is associated with the advancement of women’s education in the state. With a view to encourage women’s education in Manipur in public interest, institution exclusively Government Girls’ College, a premier State Government meant for women, was established by the bifurcating the erstwhile D.M. College in 1964 and the session in the same campus. Shri Hidangmayum Dwijamani Dev Sharma, a leading educationist of Imphal, donated a sum of Rs.1 lakh for the Institution and Government Girl’s College was renamed as The Ghanapriya Women’s College, Imphal after the name of the donor’s mother, Hidangmayum Ghanapriya Devi.