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No doubt, it is but a stupendous and Herculean task to confine the entire history of the Indira Gandhi Women’s College, our almamater, in a tight nutshell. However, our sincere Endeavour will never go in vain, like the accomplishment of the devout initiatives of the founder, the founding members, the planners and the architects of the college, in actualizing the gigantic task of establishing and bringing up this much needed premiere women’s institution in the culture rich millennium city of Cuttack the citadel of Orissa art, culture and education. The College is congenially located on the western fringes of Cuttack City, right on the entry point to Shelter Square which is well connected by regular town bus and auto rickshaw services. It is the admirable foresight and planning of the sole founder of the college, Sj. Asirbad Behera, the then Secretary of the Governing Body and presently its President who deserves the highest plaudits for having chosen this location for the convenience of the girl students. Mere words are but too meager to express the blood and sweat with which this gracious and sagacious soul has worked for the establishment and growth of the institution. A host of other dedicated persons from various walks of life joined hands with him in his earnest Endeavour among whom the names of Sj. Janaki Ballav Pattanayak, the then Chief Minister of Orissa, his wife Smt. Jayanti Pattanayak who functioned as the President of the College Governing Body for 7 years, Smt. Bina Devi, Sj. Bansidhar Jethi, Sj. Pathani Pattanayak, Sj. Srikanta Panda, Sj. Sadananda Rout and many others are note worthy.
The college initially named as “Cuttack City Women’s College” began functionig with only fifty-two students in Intermediate Arts in the premises of Mansinghpatna Municipal High School. Following the demise of Smt. Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India and one of the greatest epoch-making woman leaders of the world, the college Governing Body most appropriately decided to name the college as Indira Gandhi Women’s College. From the date of its inception till today the college has gone through many ups and downs but yet, has emerged as one of the fore running womens educational institutions in the city. The untiring efforts of Sj. Asirbad Behera and the dedicated services of Late Basanti Mohapatra the first Principal of the college who served for a marathon span of sixteen years had set the ball rolling and here we hare celebrate the ‘Silver Jubilee’ year of the College in September, 2005.
The college grew its wings under the aegis of the Teachers Training College which had also been established here earlier by Sj. Asirbad Behera. For a short period of time the college functioned at Sanatnalini Girls High School after having shifted from the premises of Mansinghpatna Municipal High School. Subsequently in 1986 the college started functioning in ‘its’ own building at Shelter Square.
Classes in +2 Arts started in the College in 1983 with due Concurrence of the State Government and affiliation from the council of Higher Secondary Education. Four years later in 1987, the college received recognition of the government and affiliation of the Utkal University to impart teaching in +3 Arts courses in all the subjects being taught at +2 stage except psychology. Subsequently, in 1991 the college was accorded permission to admit students into honours course in Education and shortly later, in 1993, permission was granted by the Higher Education department of the Government of Orissa to open honours classes in History, Political Science, Home Science and Oriya. Later in 2003 permission was granted to open honours class in one more subject i.e. Economics. Realising the need for science education, the management decided to introduce the +2 Science Course in the college in 1993. The institution with a sparse strength of fifty two students has grown considerably in a decade and a half, with an average of 1000 to 1500 students on its rolls every year, over the past ten years. The strength of the staff of the college has also grown commensurately. The college presently functions with a staff strength of 40 teaching 32 non-teaching members.
To impart education in best possible form and to bring out the best in the students for all round personality development as well as for academic excellence leading to a prosperous career.
Spread of education and dissemination of knowledge to the denied and underprivileged sections of women in the society.
Imbibing scientific temperament, organisational abilities and human values in the upliftment of women.
Create consciousness regarding constitutional rights and empowerment of women to bring them to the national mainstream. Besides this we dedicate ourselves to the cause of comprehensive personality development to women students and teach them to the cause of social upliftment by providing them the excellence in the academic and moral education.
The strength of our College is our student from both rural and urban areas, who belong to different communicates like minorities S.C., ST and other backward classes. Though at present we have only undergraduate courses, we have planned to introduce post-graduate courses in some subjects. We have also planned to start career-orientated education in Beauty Care, Communicative English and Fashion designing. With reference to the core values of NAAC and our goals we practice various activities to help the students for their all round development.
Course Details
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Contact Person
Prof Rabindra Nath RoyAddress
Shelter Square,Cuttack-753002.Pincode
753002Cuttack, Orissa, India
Website
http://igwcollege.in/Contact Phone Numbers
0671-2360838Nearest Airport
Bhubaneswar AirportNearest Railway
Cuttack Railway Station
