about us
Krishna Kanta Handique Govt. Sanskrit College (formerly named as “Assam Sanskrit College”) today is the sole premier institution of higher education imparting Sanskrit teaching and learning in Assam as well as in North-East India. Recently the college has been conferred with the National Assam Education Award, 2004 from CMAI, New Delhi, as the best college teaching Sanskrit in Assam. The Assam Sanskrit Education Committee, constituted by the Govt. of Assam in the year 1966 for examining the position of Sanskrit Education and for suggesting ways and means for improvement of Sanskrit learning in the state in general and for marketing recommendation towards the establishment of types of Sanskrit institution including higher institutes of learning research and training with syllabus and curriculum of studies for the purpose in particular. On the basis of this report the Govt. of Assam had been pleased, as a response to a long-standing demand of the public to start the present K.K.H. Govt. Sanskrit College in the year 1970 as a full-fledged Govt. educational institution. Eminent Sanskrit Scholar Dr. Dimbeswar Sarma was the founder principal of the college.
