Government College Chittur is one of the oldest and famous educational institutions in Kerala. The College is affiliated to the University of Calicut and is a special grade College under the Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala. The college has been accredited by NAAC with B grade. It provides undergraduate and postgraduate education in Science, Arts and Commerce subjects.
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The college has established on 11 August 1947. It started functioning in the present forty acre campus on the bank of serene Sokanasini (also known as Chitturpuzha) in 1954.
महाजनो येन गत : स पन्था – The path travelled by great people is the right path – is the motto inscribed in the logo of the college.
The vision of the college is to provide its students an environment condusive to the acquisition of an outlook and knowledge that would enable them to tread the path trodden by great people.
1. To provide a wholesome education in various disciplines.
2. To train the students to approach knowledge with a spirit of enquiry and questioning, rather than a limited aim of memorizing and rote-learning.
3. To motivate youth in the rural-agrarian environs of the college to pursue higher education and ambitious career goals, with such a pursuit resulting in their all round development and increased participation in the larger global economy.
4. To provide access to higher education to financially and socially backward students, thereby motivating them to seek and achieve the objectives outlined above.
5. To impart value based education and make the students self motivated and socially and politically conscious individuals who would be an asset to society and the nation.