Sree Narayana Guru College

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 si 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 institution has been catering to the academic needs and aspirations of the pupils in and around Chelannur for more than four decades. 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 2023, the college was Accredited by NAAC at 'A' Level (CGPA 3.13) 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. The Regional Development Committee, Calicut, assists the Trusts in the management and developmental activities of the college. The Principal is the Ex-officio member of the Regional Development Committee.Sree Narayana Guru, one of the greatest revolutionary social reformers Kerala has ever produced, was born on August 20, 1856, in a humble cottage in Chempazhanthy, a village near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, as the son of MadanAsan and KuttyAmma. MadanAsan was a farmer as well as a teacher, with proficiency in Sanskrit, Astrology and Ayurveda, and his son, the little “Nanu” grew up listening to his narrations of the stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharatha to the local residents of the village. Nanu’s uncle Krishnan Vaidyan, a reputed Ayurvedic physician and a Sanskrit scholar, taught him the basics of Tamil and Sanskrit languages. He was drawn to meditation and poetry right from his childhood years, and criticised the social discrimination against the backward classes, which was plaguing the society at that ...view more