About the Institute

Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur,has come into being on the 30th May 2015 by agovernment of Odisha order (no.11598/HE Dated 30.05.2015). A long-awaited moment has come to be fulfilled for the youth and people of the region aspiring for higher education. The new university has taken off from the erstwhileGangadhar Meher Autonomous College with the entire teaching and nonteaching staff deployed to the university to discharge immediate academic and administrative duties.

This elevation is indeed the crowning glory for an institution whose origin goes back to pre-independent India. The intellectuals and the then administrators formed a trust and through it established a college and named it after the town; thus, Sambalpur College was born in the year 1944. ...