DNR College of Education, Bhimavaram

Campus Location: West Godavari

Located in Dantuluri Narayana Raju College (D.N.R) was established in 1945, before Indian Independence, and was an offshoot of the National movement and renaissance thinking. Being agrarian, the Godavari region had been kept out of the higher academic activities in the Pre-Independence period., Sri Dantuluri Narayana Raju, a freedom fighter, an activist and a visionary wanted to provide the uneducated rural masses with the hither to unthinkable and unreachable source for their overall development and welfare i.e. higher education. That visionary, with the help of limited number of committed lieutenants and Philanthropists, strived hard with a missionary zeal and realised the establishment of a college at Bhimavaram, Known as West Godavari Bhimavaram (W.G.B) College in 1945., In 1964 it was renamed as Dantuluri Narayana Raju (D.N.R) College in memory of its founder., The introduction of post graduate courses in 1971 is a milestone in the history of the college. The infrastructure available in the college became an impetus for starting an Engineering College in 1980. In view of the outstanding academic excellence maintained by the college since its inception, the college was conferred autonomy in the year 1987, by the University grants commission, India. Consequently, the college has academic freedom to introduce new courses., It is a matter of great pride that D.N.R.College has grown from strength to strength, achieved tremendous Progress, and won the laurels of one and all under the most efficient and benign guidance of D.N.R.College Management since its inception. Under the fervent stewardship of various office bearers and members of the college Management, D.N.R.College has reached the peak of glory. The erstwhile Managements under the leadership of former Presidents Sri R. Venkataramayya, Sri G. Venkaiah Naidu, Sri G. Mohan Das, Sri T. Krishna Murthy, Sri G. Jagannadha Raju, Sri G. Ranga Raju, Sri Bh. Vijaya Kumar Raju, Sri G. Ranga Raju (Murali), and Sri Ch. Sreeranganadha Raju and the former Secretary and Correspondents Sri Dantuluri Narayana Raju, Sri G. Jagannadha Raju, Sri G. S. Ramabhadra Raju, Sri M. Rama Raju, Sri D. Bapi Raju and Sri G. V. Narasimha Raju have contributed a lot for the tremendous development of the college. The newly elected Governing body of the college Association under the young and dynamic leadership of Sri G.V. Narasimha Raju, President and Sri G.Satyanarayana Raju (Babu), Secretary & Correspondent has been very actively striving for further development of the college and they are also planning to start new courses both at undergraduate and Post Graduate levels. More than adequate infrastructural facilities such as furnished lecture halls, independent and well equipped laboratories, one of the biggest and orderly maintained library consisting of about 1,20,000 books, a huge auditorium, a big play ground with eight line running track, two tennis courts, a modern gymnasium, a basket ball court with international standards, etc have been provided by the college management. Additional facilities such as student information Bureau, book stores, canteen, post office, commercial Bank, Medical Health Centre, etc., have been provided for the benefit of the student community., OUR VISION, To transform into an institution of excellence for development of human resources in the domains of Sciences, Social Sciences, Technology, Arts, Commerce and Management, OUR MISSION, Providing community oriented and learner centric curricular improvement, academic and applied research, programmes of out reach to transform in the direction of attaining excellence.. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.