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Sree Narayana Guru College, Chelannur

Sree Narayana Guru College, Chelannur, is situated at the foot of the towering Kalari Hills, in a quiet village about 14 kilometres in the north-east direction from Kozhikode. The college has a serene and extensive campus of about 67 acres, by the side of Kozhikode- Balussery Road, noted for its scenic beauty and blessed with the natural spring water fountain in the south-east location. The foundation stone of the college building was laid in February1968 by Dr. T. Balakrishnan. The formal inauguration of the commencement of classes took place in June 1968 with Sri. R. Sankar, the Founder Secretary of the S.N. Trusts engaging the first Pre-Degree class.In 1975, with the beginning of under graduate courses in Botany and Commerce, the college was elevated to the status of a degree college. It became a venue for Post Graduate Studies with the commencement of M.Com degree course in 1995 and MA(English) Degree course in 1999.Recently in 2021 the 4th PG course Msc Biology course with specialization Genetics, Biomechanics, Biomedicine, Genomics, Green Biology was started.

In March 2007, the college was accredited by the NAAC at the level of B+ grade and re- accredited by the NAAC at the level of B++ grade in October 2016. At present the college is one of the prestigious institutions of higher learning run by S.N. Trusts, Kollam. It is managed by the executive committee of the S.N. Trusts with Sri.Vellappally Natesan as the manager.

About RUSA Project

On the basis of the DPR submitted by the Sree Narayana Guru College, Chelannur for constructing a PG and research Block, Maintenance of academic Block, and Purchase under RUSA Project-II, the RUSA Project Directorate granted Administrative sanction (No149/2019/RUSA-SPD) ON 23/09/2019. Consequently, we entered into an agreement with the RUSA-SPD on 12/10/2019, and as per order No. RMKKD /2020-21/CC/2019/2184 dated 01/06/2020, technical sanction was also granted. In pursuance of the above AS and TS, we have entered into another agreement with our work agency (Kerala State Construction Corporation) on 25/06/2020. Thereafter as per Order No. 149/RUSA-SPD/2018 dated,18/08/2020, RUSA-SPD granted final authorization to commence the work. On the basis of the above-mentioned work order we have started the work in January 2020 and we have completed the new construction and maintenance work, but the purchase is pending. Even though we have completed the construction, we are not able to inaugurate the building because we have yet not been granted the permission from district town planning office. A sum of rupees 14570436/- has been expended for the above work so far.