: The Bishop Benziger College of Nursing here has received B Grade accreditation of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The college is a unit of the Bishop Benziger Hospital under the Kollam Latin Catholic diocese. College Principal K.R. Anoopa said the grade was awarded in recognition of the college’s activities in value-based curricular and co-curricular activities, library with e-learning facilities, social commitment of the college through involvement in free health-care services to the coastal community and spreading health awareness programme though Community Radio Benziger.