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4 unusual facts about Jeypore


Aitchison College

North Mian Meer Road was initially selected as the new site for Chiefs College and collaboration between Bhai Ram Singh, Vice Principal of Mayo School of Arts and Col. S. S. Jacob, Executive Engineer at Jeypore came up with an architectural design for the college.

Jeypore

Jeypore also has colleges offering professional courses such as Gopal Krushna College of Engineering & Technology, which was established in the year 1989.

Government Colleges include Vikram Dev College Jeypore, which is one of the oldest and prominent colleges of Odisha established in 1947.The college started at the present P. G. Block was known as 'Jeypore College' from July 1, 1947.

All India Radio - Jeypore, is one of the oldest Radio Stations in Odisha, established on the 28 June 1964 and has many award winning programmes to its credit.


Draco norvillii

The lizard was recently rediscovered after 118 years in the Jeypore Reserve Forest by Mazedul Islam and Professor Prasanta Kumar Saikia of the Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology Laboratory of the Zoology Department, Gauhati University in 2012.

Himansu Sekhar Nahak

He completed his Inter in DAV Junior College in Koraput, and graduated in 2008 from Berhampur University, Jeypore, with a Bachelor of Commerce for which he studied in Vikram Dev Autonomous College, a famous college in Jeypore.


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