Khallikote Autonomous College

Khallikote Unitary University, formerly known as Khallikote Autonomous College, is a co-educational state university situated in Brahmapur, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Union College in 1878, the institution became a university in 2021. The university has a student enrolment of nearly 5,000. It is one of the oldest educational institutes in Odisha.

History

The present university began as a Government Zilla School in 1856 and later upgraded for Intermediate classes (F.A. classes) with the name of ''Union College'' in 1878. And subsequently changed its name to ''Native College''.

With major financial crisis in around 1893, for the survival of the institution the District Magistrate of Ganjam (A.W.B. Higgins, ICS) approached the Raja Saheb Harihar Mardaraj Deo of Khallikote who donated a lakh of rupees for the endowment fund. It was renamed in 1893 as Khallikote College in the honor of late Raja Saheb.

The college was affiliated to Madras University until 1936 when Berhampur was in the Madras Presidency. After 1936, when Orissa became a separate province, the college was affiliated to Patna University.
From 1944, Degree classes started in Arts, Science and Commerce at Khallikote College under affiliation to Utkal University. Postgraduate programmes were also introduced in four subjects in 1963.

The college became affiliated to Berhampur University after its establishment in 1967. The college management was handed over to Government of Odisha from 1971.

Journey to University

The college has given autonomy since 1990 and renamed it as ''Khallikote Autonomous College''.

The Khallikote Cluster University was established as the first cluster university in Odisha on 30 May 2015, under the RUSA scheme. It was started to give affiliation, resource distribution and to tackle staff crunch among age old Khallikote (Autonomous) College, Berhampur; Sashi Bhusan Rath Government Women's College, Berhampur; Binayak Acharya College, Berhampur; Government Science College, Chhatrapur; and Gopalpur College, Gopalpur.

The cluster headquarter was the Khallikote College campus. By 2021, the cluster university has ceased its operations and merged with Berhampur University.

With major amendments, Khallikote Autonomous College has been upgraded and has given the status of a new Unitary University in the state of Odisha from 1 August 2021.

Academics

The university currently has twenty-two different departments.

Departments

* Anthropology
* BBA
* Bachelor of Education
* Botany & Biotech
* Chemistry
* Commerce
* Computer Science
* Economics
* Education
* Electronics & Telecommunications
* English
* Geology
* Hindi
* Histrory
* MFA
* Mathematics
* Master of Computer Application
* Odia
* Philosophy
* Physics
* Political Science
* Zoology

Facilities

* Central Bank of India with ATM
* Sub-Post Office
* Khallikote University Stadium

Alumni

* V. V. Giri, former President of India
* Bishwanath Das, Ex-Governor
* Justice B. Jagannath Das, Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India
* Chief Justice Lingaraj Panigrahi
* Justice P. Balakrishna Rao
* Vice-Admiral H. L. Sharma
* Nityananda Pradhan
* Ladu Kishore Swain
* Sisir Mishra
* Celina Jaitly
* Tamanna Vyas

References

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Department of Higher Education, Odisha
Autonomous Colleges of Odisha
Universities in Odisha
Education in Berhampur
Educational institutions established in 1878
1878 establishments in India
Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras