ACHYUTA SAMANTA

HISTORY
Achyuta Samanta(Odia: ଅଚ୍ୟ ୁତ 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.
 EARLY LIFE
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.[2]
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.
 CAREER
Inspired by his life’s struggle for survival that led to his realization-
“Poverty creates illiteracy and literacy eradicates poverty”, Achyuta
Samanta committed to live a life of self-sacrifice and to act as the
medium to eradicate the ills faced by the deprived children using
education as the vehicle of social transformation. Achyuta Samanta,
after a brief stint as an academic following completion of his Masters
in Chemistry (1987), started in a very modest scale the two institutions:
KIIT and KISS with a paltry sum of 100USD which he had saved penny
by penny for the purpose.

KIIT, starting initially in a rented building, now stands over 400

acres with 13 million sq. ft. of aesthetically built up area. It has become
the most promising university in India with “A” category status granted
by Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India. With visibility
that has spread across the globe, the university today enjoys the trust
of over 27000 aspirant scholars from around the world. KIIT today has
also created indirect and subsidiary employment opportunities for a
lakh of people besides direct employment to ten thousand people
besides supporting the philanthropic initiative, KISS.

Achyuta Samanta’s vision encompasses rural development. With

single hand initiative he transformed his native
village Kalarabanka became a Model Village in 2005. The village has all
city amenities: Schools (Primary level to High School in regional and
English medium), Post-office, Banking facilities, hospital, internet
facility, community spiritual centres, Self-help Groups, police outpost,
all weather road connectivity, street-lighting, etc. Development of this
village has also triggered developments of the entire cluster of
neighboring villages and this cluster of villages- Manapur Panchayat is
well on its way to be a Smart Panchayat.

Achyuta Samanta has also been promoting and fostering growth

of arts, culture, literature, films and media and spiritualism in his bid to
bring about a holistic change in the human society. A good heart
indeed touches every sphere of human living.
 AWARDS

AWARDS YEAR

Czech Varsity Confers Honorary Doctorate 2016

Pride of India award 2016 2016

"NIQR Bajaj Outstanding Quality Man Award 2016" 2016

'BEST WORKER’ Highest Civilian Award of Republic of Mongolia 2015

'Isa Award for Service to Humanity', the highest civilian award of Bahrain 2015

True Legend Award 2015 2015

Hall of Fame Award presented by World CSR Congress 2015

Successful Entrepreneur Award at Economic Times Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 2015

'Civilian Award' Czech Republic 2015

Dr. Pinnamaneni and Seethadevi Foundation Award 2014 2014

CSI Fellowship Award at Hyderabad 2014

President's Gold Medal 2014 from International Association of Knowledge, Znanie,

2014
Moscow

GUSI Peace Prize International 2014 at Manila, Philippines 2014

Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt) from Chosun University, South Korea 2014

Honorary Ph.D from Roshdiyeh Higher Education, Tabriz, Iran 2014

‘2013 World of Difference Awards’ by US-based International Alliance for Women

2014
(TIAW)

Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt) from International University of Kyrgyzstan 2014