The West Bengal Universities and Colleges (Administration and Regulation) Act, 2017 stipulates rules regulating the constitution, functions, procedure of election and other related matters of the Student’s Council of the college. Student’s Council is an association of regular students of a college whose members are directly elected by the regular students of the college or university. The election of Student’s Council is conducted regularly once in every two years as may be advised by the State Government from time to time, and every such elected Students' Council shall ordinarily have a tenure of two years unless otherwise directed by the State Government. Second, the Students' Council of the college ordinarily shall not use any banner or emblem of any political party in any manner during election or campaigning.  Every student contesting in the election as candidate or as class representative shall be identified by his own name, class or section and roll number and nothing else. The whole election process, commencing from filing of nomination papers, scrutiny, preparation of electoral rolls of regular students, declaration of name of contesting candidates, election campaign, casting of votes and declaration of results is ordinarily completed within a period not exceeding thirty days. However, the State Government may under exceptional circumstances, extend such period as it may deem necessary considering the local conditions or otherwise of the College specific situation. The date and time of election in the college is specified by the State Government, from time to time: Provided that the polling and declaration of result shall be done on a single day during the working hours of the College.

 The Students' Council of the college  consists of the following office bearers and members, namely,- (a) the President, who shall be nominated by the Principal /Teacher-in-charge of the college  from amongst the teachers of the College, (b) the Vice-President- who shall be nominated from amongst the teachers by the Teachers' Council of the College. (c) the General Secretary- who shall be elected by the elected Class Representatives of all classes from amongst them in the first meeting of the Student's Council, (d) two Assistant General Secretaries* who shall be elected by the elected Class Representatives of all classes from amongst them in the first meeting of the Student Union or council, (e) not more than five Assistant Secretaries to look after various departments or branches like Cultural Secretary, Welfare Secretary, etc.- who shall be selected by the elected Class Representatives of all classes from amongst them in the first meeting of the Students' Council: Provided that the number of Assistant Secretaries representing various departments or branches may exceed five considering the various activities of the Students' Council but the total number of Assistant Secretaries shall under no circumstances exceed seven. (f) the Treasurer- who shall be nominated by the Principal/ Teacher-in-charge from amongst the teachers of the college in the first meeting of the Students' Council, (g) elected class representatives of all classes/ sections- member, to be elected by the regular students of individual sections or departments. The elected class representatives of all classes/ sections/ departments shall be the members of the Students' Council and shall have power to vote in any meeting of the Council. The President or in his absence, the Vice-President, shall have a casting vote in the event of a tie. Every meeting of the Students' Council shall ordinarily be convened by the President or in his absence, the Vice-President within the college campus and only after the academic hours.  An Election Committee is formed amongst the teachers of the College which is responsible for the proper conduct of the election and to resolve dispute, if any, in consultation with the Election Authority constituted by the State Government for the College. The President of the Election Committee shall appoint Presiding Officers/ Polling Officers for conducting the polls, from amongst the teaching staffs of the college. The Election Committee shall publish the draft electoral roll at least twenty days before the date of Election. The Election Committee shall publish a notification fixing the time and place and other particulars for :(a) issuance of nomination papers; (b) submission of nomination papers; (c) scrutiny of nomination papers; (d) publication of the list of valid nomination papers in alphabetical order of the first names in English spelling; (e) withdrawal of nomination papers; (f) publication of the list of the contesting candidate. Declaration of results is made immediately after the counting is over. The Election Committee appoints Counting Officers from among the members of the whole-time teaching staffs of the college who shall be responsible for counting of votes in the presence of the Presiding officer and the contesting candidates of the College.

Jhargram Raj College has a Students’ Union formed in accordance with Government Order and the University statute. The members of this union are annually elected from and by the students of the college. The students’ union regularly organises annual sports, and cultural activities like freshers welcome, annual social and Saraswati puja.   

As per G.O Students’ Union elections has been put on hold since 2017 in West Bengal and Mahadeb Bhui (Department of Economics) is currently performing the duties of Students’ Union General Secretary.