Nayagarh Autonomous College, Nayagarh

About Nayagarh Autonomous College, Nayagarh

Nayagarh Autonomous College is situated in Nayagarh in Odisha state of India. Established in 1961, it is accredited from UGC, Department of Higher Education, and it is affiliated to Utkal University.

The erstwhile Princely State of Nayagarh occupied a prominent place in the Freedom Movement of India for its bloody Struggle against the British rule. After being liberated from the Royal Shackles, it joined the national political mainstream in 1948 a year after the independence of our country. Subsequently, along with three other neigbouring princely states, Nayagarh now a district formed a part of Puri district as a sub-division in the state of Orissa. In the receding tide of colonial hang-over when the era of Reconstruction of Indian Nation began under the dynamic leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the people of Nayagarh just liberated from the princely shackles, were not lagging behind. They could very well read the national meaning of the new spirit and felt an urge to establish an institution for higher education.

In the year 1952, the first proposal for establishing a college came from the then S.D.O. Sri Udayanath Pattnaik. In the year 1961, with sustained efforts, selfless dedication, unstained co-operation with the proponents and diffusing inspiration among the people, the then S.D.O. Sri Bhramarabar Jena took the cudgel and kingpinned all the levers he could pull, to establish the college. With generous charities of land fro the Endowments of Sri Gopinath Jew; Her Majesty the Queen of the erstwhle princely state of Nayagarh; the Forest Department; the then Eastern zone Command Base now the Police Training School, Nayagarh and numerous small-land owners, the college came into existence on a Syivan surrounding at the foot of the Rukhi Range on the 9th July 1961.

Initially, the college had to pass through financial hard times. It is said – “When the Going Gets Tough”, the Tough Gets Going”, and the Gough – Late Bhramarbara Jena, the Founding Father of the college left no stones unturned to see that funds from diverse sources start pouring in. Even the common people of the Nayagarh sub-division came forward to contribute a year’s extra revenue to shape the college in its infancy.