In the educationally backward and tribal dominated region of South Orissa, Khallikote College has been a great hope with its exceptional track record of over a century and half. The institution began as a high school in 1856 before becoming a full-fledged college in the year 1878. The Institution with its glorious past of more than 150 years has been one of the leading centers of learning and intellectual pursuits in Orissa. The Institution has the reputation of producing a former President of India and a host of Governors, Ministers, scientists, educationists and freedom fighters among a long list of illustrious persons since its establishment in pre-independent India.
Over the last few years owing to paucity of teaching and administrative staff, inadequate state support and overall deterioration of higher education infrastructure the Institution has failed to live up to theexpectations. This is high time that the State Government did something urgently to restore the lost glory and academic standards of the historic Institution.
In this regard, granting Unitary University Status to Khallikote College has become an imperative. Further, to ensure its expansion and to facilitate the opening of the new Departments, a new campus of the Institution should be planned on the outskirts of Berhampur city. As many Organizations of the region have suggested, this proposed Unitary University should be named as Khallikote Mardraj University in memory of Raja Ramchandra Mardraj of Khallikote who is one of the founding fathers of the modern day Odisha State.
The State Government should exhibit the same seriousness and urgency, as was the case with Ravenshaw College and University College of Engineering, to grant Unitary University Status to Khallikote College with a new campus at the earliest.
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