Ghana Kanta Baruah College, Morigaon

About Ghana Kanta Baruah College, Morigaon

Ghanakanta Baruah College is one of the premier institutes of higher education in the district of Morigaon. It was established in the year 1993. It is located by the Jagiroad-Morigaon highway at Nabheti. The college is located in a unique environment free from the hustle and bustle of city life.

Alike necessity is the mother of invention, the necessity of the second Degree College at Morigaon town was the reason behind the inception of Ghanakanta Baruah College in the year 1993. Turning up of a number of delegates of aspirant students and guardians for Degree course at Karmapran Khirod Baruah's residence had fruition on 1st September 1993, when a new Degree college was established at the premises of old Mondal barrack on the patronage of Karmapran Khirod Baruah. In this regard, the first public meeting was held at circuit house Morigaon on 24th July 1993, which was convened by Karmapran Khirod Baruah and Jibon ch. Pegu DC, Morigaon as a chief convener and other nine dignitaries as convener. At that meeting a Governing Body including Jibon ch. Pegu as president and Khirod Baruah as secretary was formed where Karmapran had accepted for patronizing a degree college in the memory of his father GHANAKANTA BARUAH who was a well-known social worker and Freedom fighter. After the establishment of the college Karmapran Khirod Baruah and his beloved mother, Late Taruni Baruah had made an arrangement of a plot of land Measuring 7.5 Bighas of their own for the college at Nabheti, Morigaon, where the college is running and developing presently. Soon after the college was established, on Saturday 27th November 1993 felled thunderbolt to the college along with whole the state of Assam and Morigaon district that Khirod Baruah was assassinated by some miscreants of the militant organisation. That in fact, not only retarded the pace of development of our college but also the pace of development of Morigaon district. Even in such a grieved situation, Mrs Jonjonali Baruah, the apt wife of Karmapran Khriod Baruah, had come forward for a greater social cause, leaving aside her own problems and has been providing her generous support to the college to date. She facilitates the college with first three years salary and above all, we can reiterate that her guardianship on which the college has developed and reached to this shape.