Founder KiiT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)
Parents
Late Shri Anadi Charan Samanta, Smt. Nilima Rani Samanta
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Achyuta Samanta(Odia: ଅଚ୍ୟୁତ ସାମନ୍ତ)(born January 20, 1965) is the founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT); Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), which provides free accommodation, food, healthcare, and education from class 1 to post-graduation with vocational training; KIIT International School (KIS), an International Baccalaureate affiliated school, and Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a medical college.
He is a promoter of culture and the arts through Kadambini Media Pvt Ltd (KMPL), an organisation he founded. He has been the organiser of Nanhi Pari, a Little Miss India competition, since 2000. He has established 25 spiritual centres and shrines, and is in the process of setting up 'Gandhi Gram' in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, a tribal museum to showcase tribal life, art and culture, and a centre for yoga and spiritualism. He got Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) from Daffodil International University.
Achyuta samanta founder kiit kiss on dd national dec 5 2013
Biography
Samanta was born to Shri Anadi Charan Samanta and Smt. Nilima Rani Samanta in the village of Kalarabanka in Cuttack District of Odisha in 1965. His father died when Samanta was four, and he grew up in abject poverty with his widowed mother and seven siblings.
Samanta received an M.Sc in Chemistry from Utkal University. He had a decade-long experience in teaching in colleges, mostly at Maharshi College under Utkal University, in Bhubaneswar as a chemistry lab assistant.
Educationist
Achyuta Samanta is the founder, ex chancellor, and secretary of KiiT University; and the founder of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), KIIT International School, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), KIIT School of Management (KSOM), KIIT School of Rural Management (KSRM), KIIT School of Computer Application (KSCA), KIIT School of Biotechnology (KSBT), KIIT Law School (KLS), KIIT School of Languages (KSOL), Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences (KIDS) and Kalinga Polytechnic.
Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha – Central University, Tirupati, India − 2011
Hanseo University, South Korea, 2010
National University, Cambodia – 2009
OIU, Colombo – 2002 and 2005 (D.Sc)
National Formosa University, Taiwan – 2012
Daffodil International university, Bangladesh – 2014
International University of Kyrgyzstan − 2014
The International School of Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – 2014
Kainar University, Almaty, Kazakhstan − 2014
Chosun University, South Korea – 2014
Hangai University, Mongolia – 2014
Soyol Erdem University, Mongolia – 2014
Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2014
Jalalabad State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2014
Tabriz University, Iran − 2014
Jalal-Abat State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2014
Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2014
Talas State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
Issyk- kul State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
Issyk- kul Co-operative Institute, Korakoll – 2015
Tajikistan State National University, Dushanbe – 2015
Daejeon Institute of Health Science, Daejeon, Korea – 2015
Kyrgyz-Uzbek University – 2015
Dibrugarh University, D Litt. Honoris Causa- 2016
Awards and records
Samanta received a number of awards, and created new records in the field of social entrepreneurship. He was mentioned among the Top 15 Social Entrepreneurs of the World by the American Edge Foundation. Samanta appears in The Limca Book of Records as the youngest chancellor of any University in India.
" Best Worker" top Civilian Award of Mongolia − 2015
Highest Civilian award of the kingdom of Bahrain – Isa Award for Service to Humanity - 2015
Hall of Fame Award presented by World CSR Congress, New Delhi – 2015
Successful Entrepreneur Award at Economic Times Entrepreneurship Summit 2015, New Delhi – 2015
Civilian Award by Jan Mládek, Industry & Trade Minister of Czech Republic, Vladimír Bärtl, Deputy Minister of Industry & Trade Minister of Czech Republic and M. Stašek, Ambassador of Czech Republic to India at Czech Embassy, New Delhi – 2015
Think India Award by Think Media at Transforming India Conclave 2014, New Delhi – 2014
‘2013 World of Difference Awards’ by US-based International Alliance for Women (TIAW) – 2014
Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership 2013 Presented by Education World 2013
Kumara Shri 2013 Samman from 'YOUTH', for exemplary work in the field of Education & Social Service – 2013
The Highest Prize of Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS) – A Sculpture of Honour of the Goddess of Harvest Ops – Prague, Czech Republic – 2013
Utkalshree Award 2012
15th Bhagwan Mahaveer Award
Honorary Doctorate for Dr. Samanta by National Formosa University, Taiwan – 2012
Qimpro Platinum Standard 2011 Award for Education – 2012