Sarankul College

It was the year 1978. Higher Education had not yet spreaded to the rural Odisha. Sarankul, a small but beautiful village of Nayagarh district awoke from its long sleep. Under the proper guidance and well- organized steps of Sj. Artabandhu Mishra an advocate of Odisha High Court in those days, a higher educational institution named SARANKUL COLLEGE was established in order to cater to the higher educational need of this area, a Shaiva Pitha famous for LADUBABA . On the 25th june of 1978,the inception ceremony of the college was held in campus of the then Sanskrit Tol of Sarankul with Sj.Prafulla Kumar Maharana as its 1st Principal. The first cry of the new born infant was heard on the 27th day of July that year. It was the first day of starting of classes. On the 6th day of Kartik Sukla, 1979, the foundation stone of the Present College building was laid on the Hill-top of ?Bhandar? by its founder, Adv. Artabandhu Mishra.