About Baby John Memorial Govt. College, Chavara, Chavara
The college established August 1981 by the Government of Kerala meeting the long cherished dream of the natives of Chavara and its surrounding regions. It is located at Sankaramangalam around 14 Kms North of Kollam City, on the side of National Highway 47. It is the only Govt. College in the district Kollam. A team of socially dedicated personalities had strived hard to make this dream a reality. The prominent among them was former Kerala Minister Shri. Baby John. The aim of starting this college was to uplift the younger generation from their social and educational backwardness who otherwise would have been forced to eke out a living by fishing and the traditional coir industry. The college has been striving to strengthen the objective of facilitating higher education for the meritorious and the talented to ensure social justice through higher standards of performance.
The college is under the control of the Department of Collegiate Education of the Government of Kerala. It is affiliated to the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. The college at present offers 6 undergraduate courses and 1 post graduate course. It has several facilities to empower the students including a central library, college cooperative store, canteen, EDUSAT facilities, smart class room for PG courses, internet facilities etc.
The one and only one government college in Kollam district - the Baby John Memorial Government College, Chavara - is established on 26th August 1981 by the Kerala state government and is affiliated to the University of Kerala, Thiruvnanathapuram. It meets the long cherished dream of the natives of Chavara and its surrounding regions. The College is managed and maintained by the Department of Collegiate Education of the government of Kerala and is recognized by the University Grants Commission under sec 2(f) and 12 (B) of the UGC Act, 1956. It aims to uplift the younger generation from their social and educational backwardness who otherwise would have been forced to eke out a living by fishing and the traditional coir industry. Our college has been striving to strengthen the objective of facilitating higher education for the meritorious and the talented to ensure social justice through higher standards of performance.
The campus with an area of 10 acres is located at Sankaramangalam, on the western banks of Ashtamudi Lake, eastern coast of Arabian Sea and on the side of NH 47 having a distance of 14 Kms north of Kollam City, completing 33 years of its service in the field of higher education in the district Kollam.
The college was established at Chavara following the constant efforts of the former honourable minister of Kerala Shri Baby John. Initially, this institution started functioning in a temporary building owned by Government High School for Girls Chavara with four Pre-Degree course batches with a total strength of 400 students. The construction of the first building for the college was completed and is formally inaugurated by the then Hon: Minister Sri.Premachandran on 17th June 2006. The second building was inaugurated by the then Hon: Chief Minister Sri. V.S. Achuthanandan.
Mission & Vision
Baby John Memorial Government College Chavara, initially founded as Government Arts & Science College Chavara is an instituion of higher education fully owned by the Government of Kerala. It was established in 26th August 1981 by the Govt. of Kerala, under the affiliation of the University of Kerala.
The "objects of the college" as framed following the policies of the Goverments, UGC, and the University of Kerala are:" to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and by the example of its corporate life, and in particular to make special provisions for integrated courses in humanities and science in the educational programmes of the University and to take appropriate measures for promoting inter-disciplinary studies and research in the district of Kollam to especially provide opportunity of higher education to marginalized sections in the district of Kollam and nearby districts."
