Brief History

A Short History of College.

It was November 1977, a group of local personages converged in a small shed in Chandol Bazar where Sri Kelu Charan Barik offered an idea of setting up a college for the propagation of higher education among the deprived and the poor students of this rural area.

After protracted deliberations a body namely "Proposed Chandol College Committee" was constituted under the steward¬ship of Late Banamali Brahmachari, a doyen of the teacher community of Orissa, intended to run in the shadow of the still extant "The Job Oriented Education Society, Chandol," In this connection, however, the public would always appreciate the contribution of celebrities of the area like late Hrudayananda Naik, first and distinguished Chartered Accountant of Orissa, Late Gagan Bihari Bhadra,Late Nilamani Nayak and many others who had striven to make the dream of the people of the area come true.

Establishment of an institution is a real challenge as it calls for an all-out effort by a team of ardent and dedicated people, massive funds and above all the co-operation and good wishes of the general public. Eventually the College was inaugurated by Sri Bed Prakash Agarwalla on the 15t August, 1979 in the premises of Bagdevi Bidyapitha, Daliji, with the invaluable co-operation of the dignitaries like Advocate Sachidananda Mohanty, Advocate Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty & others.

Soon after teaching commenced with 32 students in the 1st Year Intermediate Arts class.

In 1980, the foundation stone of the present building of the College was laid by Pandit Indramani Mishra of Narsinghapur and after wards the classes and office were shifted to the present Campus due to the concerted and zealous effort of Sri Panchanan Satapathy, Late Kelu Charan Naik, Sri Haladhar Naik, Sri Rajkishor Jena, Sri Padmanav Mohanty. Kudos to the members of the erstwhile staff, students and especially the youth of the locality for their unstinted selfless support and succour which went a long way to start and sustain this temple of higher learning.

But the institution was dogged by misfortune by devastating flood. The newly erected house was badly damaged and most of the assets were washed away as the flood waters inundated the area after the Luna River Bank snapped and following year. Also (i.e. in 1983) before the college could recu¬perate her financial losses it was again struck by another dreadful cyclone which for a time being paralyzed all progress. The picture changed abruptly. The hopes for a bright tomorrow were not abandoned. Once again construction and repair work was resumed with renewed vigour and great gusto. To provide accommodation to the steadily increasing number of students the necessity of building more halls and rooms were deeply felt.

Passing through many odds and ordeals, the institution survived dreaming to become a full fledged college. Over the past 39 years the student strength has increased at a considerably high rate, say for instance, from 32 in 1979 to nearly 1200 at present. Likewise the number of teaching staff has gone up from 6 to 34 and that of the non-teaching from 1 to 10 at present.

The college is affiliated to Utkal University and Council of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa, to provide teaching facility for the three years integrated course in Arts and Science( Honours) and two years course in Arts, Science and Vocational Courses for +2 examination respectively.

In 1990, the college secured permanent concurrence and affiliation for the degree classes from Utkal University. It has earned the status of being a Degree College in Derabish Block having the privileges of being registered under 2(f), 12(B) of UGC Act. The college is gradually expanding and now provides teaching facilities; in 13 Honours subjects i.e. History, Economics, Sociology, Political Science,Oriya,Psychology,Sanskrit, Education, physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany and Zoology. Steps are always being contemplated to provide more and more amenities to the students for the fuller flowering of their inherent capacity in particular and stepping up the standard of education in general. The NAAC Peer Team visited the College in 2006 and awarded C++ grade. After the sad demise of Sri Hrudayananda Naik, the founder president of the first Governing Body of the college, the institution has been renamed as HRUDAYANANDA NAIK SMARAKI MAHAVIDYALAYA in his sacred memory from 1995-96.