Rajendra Narayan University

Rajendra Narayan University is situated in Balangir, Odisha, India. [1] formerly known as Rajendra College, It started degree courses in July 1946 by offering B.A. (pass) class. It became a full-fledged degree college after the affiliation of Commerce Faculty (B.Com. class) in 1964–65 and Science faculty (B.Sc. class) in 1965–66. From 1978–79 it started offering post graduate courses in Arts, Science and Commerce. From 1967 to 2002 this college was under Sambalpur University.

It was upgraded by the Government of Odisha into a university. Now it is called Rajendra Narayan University. In December 2019 it completed its platinum anniversary where vice president of India Venkaiah naidu was about to come, but couldn't because of bad weather. Somehow he delivered a video message and inaugurated the function. Ms Manpreet Mania Bhoi was the main attraction of the celebration.

Location

The campus of Rajendra Narayan University is in the heart of the town on NH 59(Patnagarh road)

Library

The library of Rajendra College is one of the outstanding libraries of Odisha. It has more than 100,000 books. It caters the needs of teachers and students of this institution.

Student facilities

Rajendra College has three hostels:

  • New Hostel
  • PG Hostel
  • Ladies Hostel

Other student facilities:

  • Dispensary
  • Canteen
  • Post Office
  • Student Information Centre
  • Parking Lots
  • Sports Ground
  • National Cadet Corps

Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce

The college offers three-year degree courses and two-year post-graduate degree programme:

Arts
  • Department of English
  • Department of History
  • Department of Pol.Sc.
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Odia
  • Department of Hindi
  • Department of Sanskrit
  • Department of Geography
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Education

Science
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Botany
  • Department of Zoology
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Computer Science

Commerce
  • Department of Commerce

References
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