Complex sentence: On 26 May 2008 there are 57 colleges formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta have been, through a government notification (No.300-Edn (U)/IU-38/08), transferred to this new university.
Split into simpler sentences: On 26 May 2008 there were 57 colleges formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta. They were, through a government notification (No.300-Edn (U)/IU-38/08), transferred to this new university.