Maharani Lal Kunwari PG College (MLK)

Overview

The Maharani Lal Kunwari P.G. College, Balrampur commonly known by its abbreviated name, as M.L.K. College, stands named after the revered mother of the Founder of the College, Rajarshi Late Sir Maharaja Pateshwari Pasad Singh Ji of Balrampur . 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 Nagar and Basti. Colleges which now exist in these districts, came up much after and much later. Not only has the M.L.K. College this feather to its cap of being the first Degree standard college in this area but even more creditable is the fact that this college initially started with both the Faculties - Arts and Science and in the Faculty of Science with both the groups - Mathematics and Biology. Colleges generally limp on for years to attain such a status while this college lept up to this stature at its very inception.