Balanga College

Balanga basically an agrarian belt of Puri District of Odisha was away from finding a place in educational map of the State. It was only in the year 1980 that the elites of nearby vicinity dreamt of an institution of higher learning in Balanga. Dr. Dayanidhi Nayak, a homeopathic practitioner, who is worthy of his name, came forwarded with the proposal to donate a piece of invaluable land at Balighai for the said noble purpose. The sincere effort of Harihar Pati, Narayan Pati, Brundaban Behera and Dillip Kumar Pattanaik bore fruit in shape of the establishment of this college in the year 1980. The college was shifted to its present seat in the year 1982. But some other causes prevented the college to get government concurrence till 1986.