Achyuta Samanta
Achyuta Samanta FRSC (born 20 January 1965) is an Indian educationist and philanthropist.
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ଅଚ୍ୟୁତ ସାମନ୍ତ | |
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| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 25 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh |
| Constituency | Kandhamal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1965[1] Kalarabanka, Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, India |
| Political party | Biju Janata Dal |
| Residence(s) | Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India |
| Alma mater | Utkal University |
| Occupation | Social Worker & Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder of KIIT Group of Institutions |
| Website | www.achyutasamanta.com |
Besides education and tribal upliftment, healthcare and rural development, Samanta has contributed to art, culture, literature, film, media, society and national integration. He has also founded Kadambini Magazine and Kuni Katha exclusively for children. Besides, he is also the founder of Kalinga TV and K News Odisha.
He has been conferred with more than 50 International and National awards and over 200 state awards besides two highest Civilian Awards from Royal Kingdom of Bahrain and Mongolia called ISA Award for Service to Humanity and Best Worker Award respectively. He has been conferred with 55 Honorary Doctorate awards from universities in India and abroad. He is the first Odia to be a member of both UGC and AICTE. He is currently the Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Kandhamal, Odisha and also the President of Volleyball Federation of India. He is the designated President (India) of Democracy without Borders and founder of Parliamentarians for Indigenous People.
Early life
Samanta was born to Anadi Charan Samanta and Nilima Rani Samanta in the village of Kalarabanka in Cuttack District of Odisha in 1965.[2] His father died when Samanta was four, and he grew up in abject poverty with his widowed mother and seven siblings.[3]
Samanta received an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Utkal University. He started his career as a Chemistry lecturer in a college in Bhubaneswar.
Educationist
Samanta is the founder, ex chancellor, and secretary of KIIT University; and the founder of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KISS Deemed to be University, 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 KIIT Polytechnic.
Member of national and International bodies
He is a member of University Grants Commission (UGC), Executive Committee Member of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), President of Volleyball Federation of India, Member of Indian Olympic Association, President, 39th World Congress of Poets (WAAC), General President (2017–18) of 105th Indian Science Congress, Advisor of Ministry of Education (Government of Manipur), Academic Council Member of Central University of Orissa, Serving Member of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Coir Board of India, National Executive Council Member of Indian Society for Technical Education, and Executive Committee Member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA).
He was also a serving member of international bodies including the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), United States of America; Institute of International Education (IIE), New York City; Association of University of Asia Pacific (AUAP); University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP), Bangkok, Thailand; Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health (APACPH); United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), and Asia Economic Forum (AEF), CIFEJ (Centre International Du Films Pour L'enfance Et La Jeunesse, Dubai).
Honoris Causa awards
OIU, Colombo – November 2002 Honorary PhD
OIU, Colombo – September 2005 DSc.
National University, Cambodia – 2009
Hanseo University, South Korea – 2010
Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha – Central University, Tirupati, India – 2011
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 (JASU), Kyrgyzstan-2014
Osh Law Institute, Kyrgyzstan-2014
Modern University of Humanities, Moscow – 2014
Talas State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
Issyk-kul State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
Issyk-kul Co-operative Institute, Korakoll – 2015
Kyrgyz-Uzbek University – 2015
Tajikistan State National University Dushanbe – 2015 (notified)
Daejeon Institute of Health Science, Daejeon, Korea – 2015 (notified)
Humanitarian & Pedagogy University, Osh (notified)
Osh State University, Osh (notified)
Kyrgyz – Russian Slanik University (notified)
West Kazakhstan Agrarian Technical University (notified)
Poltava University, Ukrain (notified)
Nakhchian State University, Azerbaijan(notified)
Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam
Metropolitan State University, Czech Republic
North Ossetian State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia
Ala-Too International University, Kyrgyzstan – 2017
Nanhua University, Taiwan – 2017
St. Petersburg Institute of Education, Russia – 2017
World Academy of Arts and Culture ( WAAC)- 2018
Berhampur University – 2018
Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth Pune – 2018
National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT), Taiwan – 2018
Vitebsk State University, Belarus - 2019
IIS University, Jaipur – 2019
ICFAI Sikkim – 2020
Desh Bhagat University – 2021
Sikkim Professional University – 2021
The Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University) – 2021
RK University, Rajkot – 2022
Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar -2022
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar- 2022
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.[4] Samanta appears in The Limca Book of Records as the youngest chancellor of any University in India.
- Outstanding Green Activist Award by India Green Energy Awards organised by Indian Federation of Green Energy (IFGE)[5] – 2019
- Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar (Lifetime Achievement Award) at 4th National Teachers’ Congress by MIT World Peace University, Pune[6] - 2020
- Personality of the Year Award by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)[7] – 2019
- Golden Gabel Award by World Academy of Arts And Culture[8] – 2019
- BusinessLine Changemaker Awards 2019 instituted by The Hindu BusinessLine daily[9] – 2019
- Conferred the UC Distinguished Professorship in Humanities by The University of Cambodia[10] – 2018
- 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
- Honorary Fellowship Award by Computer Society of India (CSI), Hyderabad, India – 2014
- Visista Puraskar from 24th Annual Awards – 2014
- Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Award, Moscow, Russia – 2014
- Gusi Peace Prize International, Manila, Philippines – 2014
- ‘2013 World of Difference Awards’ by US-based International Alliance for Women (TIAW) – 2014
- Jawaharlal Nehru Award, 2012–2012
- Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award (Social Bravery Award) in recognition of an exceptional Act of Courage – 2011
- Priya Odiya Samman 2007 (Most Endeared Personality in Odisha), through a survey by a National TV Channel – 2007
- Humanitarian Award from Mahatma Gandhi Remembrance Organization, Johannesburg, South Africa – 2004
- First Oriya to receive International Award for Outstanding Social Work by the Indian Embassy, Muscat, Oman
- Received ‘Certificate of Excellence’ in the field of Social Work from the Minister of International Affairs, Government of Cambodia [11]
- In December 2022, he received Honorary Doctorate degree by Utkal University marking the 50th honorary degree conferred on him.[12]
References
- "Dr. Achyuta Samanta-Founder, KIIT & KISS". Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- "How Odisha's education man Achyuta Samanta plans to navigate his way to the Rajya Sabha". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- Purkayastha, Debapratim (March 2015). "Achyuta Samanta's KISS: Mainstreaming Marginalized Communities Through Education". The IUP Journal of Entrepreneurship Development. XII (1): 45–61.
- The New Indian Express. 12.01.2008 Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder Secretary KIIT & KISS has been placed among the top 15 social entrepreneurs of the world
- "Achyuta Samanta conferred with 'Outstanding Green Activist' Award". KalingaTV. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- Educationist & Social Worker Dr Achyuta Samanta Conferred With Jeevan Gaurav Award || KalingaTV, retrieved 30 April 2021
- "Dr Samanta gets FICCI 'Personality of the Year' award,millennium Post,Nov 28, 2019". ficci.in. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- "39th World Congress of Poets at KIIT". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- "Changemaker Award to Achyuta Samanta". The Pioneer. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- "THE CONFERMENT OF THE HONORARY DOCTORAL DEGREE ON JUSTICE DALVEER BHANDARI AND THE UC DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN HUMANITIES ON PROFESSOR ACHYUTA SAMANTA". The University of Cambodia. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- "In Transit with Achyuta Samanta – Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- Hemanta, Pradhan (24 December 2022). "Achyuta Samanta gets 50th honorary doctorate". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
