Mayurbhanj Law College

Legal education assumes importance both from a professional and non professional perspective for the success of Constitutional Government in a pluralist democracy like India It is necessary to have widest participation of the people in the process of law making law enforcement and legal adjudication knowledge of law and the legal process by the people is a SINE OUA NON for responsible Government and for the preservation of human rights and freedoms. Along with the proliferation of laws, there has been a steady increase in Governmental Institutions and adjudicator agencies. The growth of legal profession in the last three decades has also been phenomenal. In contrast to the traditional role in dispute settlement lawyers have come to assume a wide variety of function in policy formulation legislation administration business planning, social welfare international relations and diplomacy. Viewed in this perspective the Mayurbhanj Law College, was established on 22nd Octobers 1978 to provide legal education in this tribal and backward region of Odisha. The Mayurbhanj Law College is located at a distance of 5 kms. from the city of Baripada and expanded in an area of 5 acres at Takhatpur with the I.T.I. College-on the east, Mayurbhanj Ayurvedic College and the B.Ed. College on the West, a beautiful mango groove and the North Odisha University on the North and vast paddy field on the south the college has all the basic infrastructure of its own. The college building was inaugurated by Sri B:N .Pande the then honorable Governor of Odisha on 13th April, 1987 The college has adequate land in its name for development of its play ground, construction of hostel and other infrastructure.