Nirmalagiri College

About Institution

Nirmalagiri College, a minority institution belonging to the Archdiocese of Thalassery, was established on 13th May-1964 by H.E.Rt.Rev.Dr.Sebastian Valloppilly, the founder Bishop of Thalassery Diocese. The college is situated at a place formerly know as Kandamkunnu, now Nirmalagiri, 20kms north east of Thalassery, alongside the Thalassery-Mysore inter-state highway. The founding of the college was in tune with the vision and objectives spelt out in the Memorandum of Association of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thalassery registered as S.No 12 of 1954 under Societies Registration Act (Act XXI of 1860 ) dated 04-11-1954 Since 1940 there occurred a substantial migration from Travancore to Malabar and the post-Second World War economic scenario hastened the exodus. The new migrant community, most of them Christians, spread over the entire region of South and North Malabar, though pioneer of an agrarian revolution, was deprived of basic and higher educational facilities.