Tentulia Sasan Debasthan College

About Institution

In the mid-seventies of the last century the state woke up to establish quite a good number of colleges to afford expanded educational opportunities to the rising youth populace of the state on par with the national average. The local people realized the deficit of an institution for higher study for which the vulnerable section of the local community is deprived of higher education. Specifically the girl child and SC/ST/OBC students unable to afford the cost of higher education and join the swelling army of the dropouts. But they can pursue a higher and qualitative goal at a lower social and economic cost at their door steps if the deficit is made up with a college.
The dream got a shape at the hands of the local elites like Late Dandapani Tripathy, Advocate Sri L. N. Dash, Sri Kasinath Tripathy, Sri Prafulla Panigrahy, Sri Kishore Chandra Tripathy, Sri Gobinda Barika and others, with the inspiration of the freedom fighter, journalist, luminary Padma Bhusan Radhanath Rath, Ex-President of Loka Sevaka Mandal and the renowned Editor of the Oriya Daily “The Samaja” who acted as the first President of Governing Body. With the active cooperation of the generous people of the locality this college initially started in the school building donated by the villagers of Tentulia since July 1981, where now stands a market complex fetching a perennial flow of income for the college.
The college started with an intake capacity of 128 seats in Intermediate Arts, Science and 64 seats in Intermediate Commerce affiliated to B.U, subsequently converted to +2. +3 courses in Arts and Science has been introduced since 1991-92 and 2009-10 respectively.
The College started with 10 Lecturers in all the three streams equipped with eight Non-teaching staff members. The academic affairs of the college was vested in the hands of Principals in-charge up to 4th October 1990 and there after the Department of Higher Education, Orissa appointed Principals-cum-Secretary on deputation from time to time, with two stop gap arrangements during 25.09.1991 to 20.10.1992 and 01.10.2006 to 17.03.2009. List of the Principals has been given separately.
Strength of the college continued to boom. At present the strength of the college reached the peak of 622 out of which girls being 240 and boys 382 in 2009-10.
The college entered into the watershed phase when it introduced I.T. Education at the +2 stage and Science in degree stage. The leap forward got firmly placed as the college got registered under the U.G.C. Act 1956 vide clauses 2(f) and 12(b) with effect from 24.10 2008, a turning point for progress of the institution.