This college sprang up like an oasis in the educational desert in this region extending from Gorakhpur on one side and Lucknow on the other. In the year 1955, the year of the inauguration of the college, this was the only college imparting instruction at the Degree level in the seven districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh - Balrampur , Gonda, Shrawasti, Bahraich, Siddharthnagar, Sant Kabir
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Basti. MLK (PG) College has a very long and unforgettible history in the feild of education.This campus has provided its best approach to make the students highly-qualified and talented. In earlier days there was no college in the closer areas of Balrampur, from its date of inception, the college has started its mission to make people educated and selfdependent. MLK (PG) College has all the resources that makes its own identity. The whole college building is donated by the BALRAMPUR ESTATE to the college, from that period this college has been spreading the knowledge among the peoples. There are several extra-curricular activities entertained by the college, in which college students can participate and make their career and brighten their future. The college has well furnished building, class-room, lecture-theaters, library, labs etc. Students of this college are every-where in the world.They are doing their jobs with their best effort and are now working in the feild of Academics, Medical, Engineering, Research and development and various scientific programmes. They are doing their jobs in the various part of the country and also in abroad. The college has very talented and experienced teaching staffs of various subjects that are teaching with their best effort.They are always encouraging and motivating the students. Students can discuss and get reasonable support with the staffs in their subjects. The Departments of college has all the necessary resources like practical-labs, apparatus and equipments used by student in various practical subjects like physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, seed-technology, geography etc. For those students who have interest in participating the cultural programmes , college is providing various facilities like auditorium and related instruments. this college initially started with both the Faculties - Arts and Science and in the Faculty of Science with both the groups - Mathematics and Biology. After herculean efforts the college started Post-Graduate classes in the year 1970-71 and 1971-72 in as many as eight subjects (four subjects of the Arts Faculty - Hindi, Sanskrit, Political Science and Geography and four subjects of the Science faculty- Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Mathematics
Seeing the increasing importance of computer education a P.G. Diploma Course in Computer Application was started in 1980. In the same way a new subject named Seed Technology was added in faculty of Science in 1990 under the financial assistance scheme of vocational subject of U.G.C. Now in the Golden Jubilee Year i.e. 2004-2005, the College has started P.G. Classes in Zoology and Psychology and opened a new Faculty i.e. Commerce on October 15, 2004
Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sri K.M. Munshi, had come to inaugurate this college in August 1955 and on his return, he recorded in his renowned Kulpatis Letters dated August 28, 1955, published by the Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, his impressions about this College in the following words -
This college is one of the few to which I have been able to give affiliation with pleasure. It is well housed, well furnished - none of which characteristics are usually to be found with new colleges in Uttar Pradesh. This college can feel proud of its old students who have distinguished themselves not only nationally but internationally. To name only some - Dr. Girish Saran Agrawal, Dean School of Physics, Hyderabad (A.P.), Dr. Jang Bahadur Shukla, Professor of Mathematics, I.I.T., Kanpur (Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award winner), Dr. Patan Deen Singh, Department of Physics in a University in Brazil, Dr. Mohd Said Khan, Department of Maths, Jeddah University (Saudi Arabia), Dr. Hukum Singh, Professor and Head, deptt. of Maths, NCERT, New Delhi are just some names who have earned international recognition in their respective branches of study and have won awards for their scholarship.
