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About the College Punganur is a rural town on Chennai route, 25 Kms., from Madanapalli. It is a very small town with rural background, dotted with many temples in and around.Until 1983, students of this area were going to Madanapalli, Tirupathi or Chittoor to pursue their higher education after completion of Intermediate Course. So many students were compelled to put an end to their education with Intermediate Course due to the financial constraints. Most of the students’ parents depend on agriculture. This area is frequently hit by droughts and the people suffer from famine or other natural calamities, causing an imbalance in their financial condition. The students of the college hail from the below poverty line families and majority belong to SC, ST, BC and other Minority groups. To attend to the needs of higher education of this area, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has given permission to start a Degree College in the town. The efforts put in by the local political leaders, philanthropists and the committee constituted to establish a Degree College, succeeded in getting permission from the Government in 1983. Later the reputed philanthropist of this area Sri Sannuthi Rama Murthy Garu (Proprietor, Murthy Glass & Plywood, Chairman of Subharam Trust, Bangalore) donated a sum of Rs.2,66,666-66 ps, to the college as corpus fund. Consequently, the college is later named after the Chief Donor and his wife (Smt. Subhashini and Rama Murthy) as Subharam Government Degree College, Punganur. The college began functioning from the academic year 1983-84 with B.A (History, Economics & Political Science) and B.Com (General) courses in the premises of Lord Kalyana Venkateswara Swamy Temple in the town and it began functioning from the present own campus from the year 1998. The college during its 38 years of passage, stuck to its vision and mission namely “ To make quality higher education accessible to the marginalized sections of students and to hone their skills by imbibing value based culture and to contribute to the holistic development of the student and make the college a centre of excellence in higher learning.” The very purpose of the Government of Andhra Pradesh in establishing a Degree College in Punganur is to help the people belonging to this rural area with meagre resources of income get access to the programmes of higher education. A considerably good number of students belonging to this town and the surrounding villages in a radius of 30 Kms, have got the advantage of continuing their education without much difficulty. It is a co-education institution. Apart from imparting global competencies, it is fostering and inculcating the ethical and moral values among the students. Under a succession of highly competent Principals and motivated staff, this college has always been aware of the responsibility of carrying the vision and mission of improving the standards of the students of this rural backward area.Today i.e., (2022-23) the college has three year degree courses in four combinations viz. B. A. (HEP), B. Com (CA & Gen), B.Sc. (MSCs) with 391 students which includes 126 women. These courses were started to meet the growing present global needs. Besides these, the college has been imparting communication skills and soft skills through Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC), and certificate courses are being organized in Communication Skills, Yoga, Analytical Skills, Tourism and Travel, MS-Office and Tally by English, Physical Education, Mathematics, History, computer Science and Commerce departments respectively. This institution has a lush green campus of 14.05 acres including a playground and good academic ambience. It has 12 class rooms, 2 computer labs, 1 library and reading room, 1 Virtual classroom, a seminar hall, waiting room for women, Women Empowerment Cell, an active career guidance cell and a well-equipped 10 station gym. At present there are 7 permanent lecturers, 3 contract lecturers and 7 guest lecturers. The college is granted permanent affiliation by Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati on 23-01-2008 and it is also accredited by NAAC with ‘B’ grade in II cycle on 25-06-2016. It has also been included under sections 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act 1956 vide Lr. F.8.195/2008 (CPP-I) dated. 17-09-2008. now, the institution is poised for III (Third Cycle) re-accreditation from NAAC |
