with the active co-operation of the local people, during the early eighties, the dream got a shape at the hands of the local eminent personalities like Sri Kishore Chandra Tripathy, Late Dandapani Tripathy, Laxmi Narayan Dash, Prafulla Chandra Panigrahy, Gobinda Barika and others.
Drawing inspirations from the Freedom fighter and Padma Bhusan Sri Radhanath Rath, the ex-editor of the Odia Daily “The Samaja”, Sri Kishore Chandra Tripathy acted as the first President of Governing Body.
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The local people realized the deficit of an institution for higher study for which the vulnerable section
of the local community is deprived of higher education. Specifically the girl child
and SC/ST/OBC students unable to afford the cost of higher education and join the
swelling army of the dropouts. But they can pursue a higher and qualitative goal
at a lower social and economic cost at their door steps if the deficit is made up
with a college.
The college got registered under the U.G.C. Act 1956 vide clauses 2(f) and 12(b)
with effect from 24.10 2008, a turning point for progress of the institution. Please
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The College started with 10 Lecturers in all the three streams equipped with eight
Non-teaching staff members. The academic affairs of the college was vested in the
hands of Principals in-charge up to 4th October 1990 and there after the Department
of Higher Education, Orissa appointed Principals-cum-Secretary on deputation from
time to time, with two stop gap arrangements during 25.09.1991 to 20.10.1992 and
01.10.2006 to 17.03.2009. List of the Principals has been given separately.
Strength of the college continued to boom. At present the strength of the college
reached the peak of 622 out of which girls being 240 and boys 382 in 2009-10.
Got shifted to its own and new site in December 2000 with financial
assistance extended by the M.L.A. and MPs from their respective LAD Funds and physical
labour of the staff. All inputs put into prompt and potential performance expanded
the academic panorama. With the increased number of staff members entering into
Grant in-Aid fold, the internal resources of the college became viable to extend
possible facilities for the quality education in the college. As per UGC guidelines
and approval U.G.C programmes like Remedial Coaching Centre, Entry into Service
Cell, Internal Quality Assurance Cell and Network Resource Centre will function
from this session (2010-11) for the academic excellence and future of the students
and others.
With the assistance of the U.G.C., technical assistance of Government of Odisha
and other organisations the process is on to modernize its system of education and
administration putting all activities “online”.
The college entered into the watershed phase when it introduced I.T. Education at
the +2 stage and Science in degree stage. The leap forward got firmly placed as
the college got registered under the U.G.C. Act 1956 vide clauses 2(f) and 12(b)
with effect from 24.10 2008, a turning point for progress of the institution.
As per UGC norms the college is striving strenuously for NAAC accreditation with
all positive thoughts and actions. The Principal, staff, students and other related
authorities and local elites are involved in the process.