Berhampur is a city on the eastern coastline of Odisha, India.
Jeypore is a city in Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha. It was established by Vir Vikram Dev in the mid 17th century. The kingdom was defeated by the East India Company in 1777 who declared it a Zamindari or Feudatory of the British Crown and much later got acknowledged as a Princely state until its dissolution in the Dominion of India in 1947.
Koraput district is a district of India in southern Odisha, with headquarters at Koraput. The district is located in the Eastern Ghats and is known for its hilly terrain, rich and diverse types of mineral deposits and its tribal culture and traditions. The district headquarters town of Koraput and its largest city, Jeypore are major centres of trade and commerce for South Odisha and fall on an important road connecting Visakhapatnam to Raipur.
Khallikote University was a state university situated in Brahmapur, Odisha. It was founded in 2015 as a cluster university with five constituent colleges, transformed into a unitary university in 2020 and merged with Berhampur University in 2021, thus ceasing operation.
Koraput is a town and a Municipality in Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha. Koraput town is the district headquarter of Koraput district.
Malkangiri, historically known as Malikamardhangiri, is a town and municipality in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarter of the Malkangiri district. Malkangiri has been the new home of the East Bengali refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan, who have been rehabilitated since 1965 under the Dandakaranya Project. Some Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were also rehabilitated in the town, following the armed struggle of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the early 1990s, although most of them have now returned to their country. Currently, it is one of the most naxalite-affected areas of the state, and is a part of the Red Corridor.
Gunupur is a Municipality and one of the sub-divisional headquarters of Rayagada district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the second biggest town in Rayagada district.
Previously a neglected aspect of the Indian Central government, Education in Odisha is witnessing a rapid transformation. Its capital city, Bhubaneswar along with Cuttack, are emerging as a knowledge hub in India with several new public and private universities, including the establishment of an Indian Institute of Technology after five decades of demand.
Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, formerly North Orissa University (NOU), is a public university in the regional city of Baripada in the state of Odisha, India. MSCB University was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with an A grade in third assessment cycle with a score of 3.1 out of 4 points.This university mainly provides higher education through on-campus as well as distance education modes. It aims to provide job-oriented technical courses.Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University ranks 5577th globally and 248th in India based on overall research output. In the academic sector, it holds positions 2836th globally and 187th in India.
Vikram Dev University is a public state university located in the city of Jeypore, Koraput district in Odisha, that offers courses primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It was established in 1947 by Maharaja of Jeypore Sri Vikram Dev IV or Vikram Deo Verma as Jeypore College and later named after him.
Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church is a major Lutheran Christian denomination in India. It was established in 1882. At that time, the founder of The Schleswig Holstein Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society of Germany (SHELM) in Germany was Pastor Christian Jensen, who was praying for the people of India. Pioneer missionaries Rev. Ernest Pohl and Rev. Herman Bothmann came to India and reached the Koraput district of Odisha on 31 May 1882 and started mission work.
The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha is a board of education for public and private schools under the state government of Odisha, India.
Odisha State Road Transport Corporation or OSRTC is the state owned road transport corporation in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. It is a wholly owned public sector enterprise of the Government of Odisha founded in 1971. It serves major towns, cities and villages of Odisha and also operating interstate bus services to the neighbouring states of Andra Pradesh, Telangana and West Bengal It is acknowledged for its distinguished service for safe and lowest cost of operation with a fleet of 636 buses.
Department of Higher Education, Odisha is a unit of the Government of Odisha in India that looks after the higher education in the state of Odisha. The department looks after the education curriculum at University, Post-Graduate and Graduate level in the state of Odisha. The department is responsible for hiring and employing teaching staffs in positions of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor as well as non-teaching staff in Higher Education Institutions running under Government of Odisha. Moreover, it looks after functioning of state run Universities namely Maa Manikeshwari University, Rajendra University, Ravenshaw University, Utkal University, Berhampur University, Sambalpur University, Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Fakir Mohan University, Gangadhar Meher University, Rama Devi Women's University, Khallikote Unitary University, NLUO, Dharanidhar University, Odisha State Open University and Vikram Dev University.
Odisha State Open University (OSOU) is a distance learning state university located in Sambalpur, Odisha, India. The university was established by an Act of the Odisha State Legislature in 2015. The university has jurisdiction over the entire State of Odisha.
AcharyaTarini Charan Patra was a renowned Odissi musician, Guru, singer, scholar, poet, composer & Binākara. One of the most eminent artistes of Odissi classical music in the 20th century, he was known for his vocal renditions & Bina recitals on gramophone records & over the All India Radio, as well as his pioneering efforts in institutionalizing the training of Odissi music by setting up one of the earliest music universities in erstwhile Odisha, the Gandhiji Sangita Kalamandira at Boirani, Ganjam that remained active from 1940 until Patra's demise in 1979.
Vikram Dev I or Vikram Dev was the ruler of Jeypore from 1758 to 1781. He succeeded his brother Lal Krishna Dev. He retransferred the capital from Narayanapatna to Jeypore which had been deserted from the time of Balaram Dev in 1711. In the last years of his reign, the kingdom was demoted to a zamindari after they were defeated by the British.
Khallikote Unitary University, formerly known as Khallikote Autonomous College, is a co-educational state university situated in Brahmapur, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Union College in 1878, the institution became a university in 2021. The university has a student enrolment of nearly 5,000. It is one of the oldest educational institutes in Odisha.
Odisha University of Health Sciences (OUHS) is a public state medical university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, established in 2023 by an Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
