Achyuta Samanta is the founder of several educational institutions in Odisha, India that provide free education to underprivileged students. He started his career as a teacher and went on to establish the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in 1993 with just Rs. 5,000. KIIT has since grown into one of India's top universities. He also founded the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in 1992 which provides free education from elementary to postgraduate levels for over 20,000 tribal children. Several of his institutions have received support from international organizations for their work empowering underprivileged communities through education.

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ACHYUTA SAMANTA
Founder KiiT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)
Achyuta Samanta (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 organization he founded. He
has been the organizer 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 center for yoga and spiritualism.
Early Life, Education & Career Profile
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 Achyutananda Samanta was four, and he grew up in abject
poverty with his widowed mother.Samanta received an M.Sc in Chemistry from Utkal University. He had decade-long
experience in teaching in colleges, mostly at Maharshi College under Utkal University, in Bhubaneswar.
The adversities of life, the penury he experienced made him to struggle and stand in the midst of just a very
microscopic few who could transform his woes to advantages. The logical end to a struggling young man’s quest was
a job to sustain himself and help the family back home. His academic excellence got him the job of a teacher in a local
college, but his destiny had other plans for him. The hunger, the poverty and the will to forge ahead kept him going.
The prospects of a good life did not make him forget his wretched condition and deprivation. Adversaries of life
taught him to take life as it came. Being crushed in poverty he learned to survive and transform his adversaries to
advantages. Thus, Achyuta thought something big for deprived children where each one of them could study. It
definitely needs courage to give up a secured future to run after a mirage. Few people dare to think of coming nearer
to the horizon but very few of them set their own horizons and Achyuta was proving to be one in the second category.
With all his savings, a paltry sum of Rs. 5,000/- (100 US $), Achyuta started a small Industrial Training Institute in
1993 which has grown into one of the finest multi-disciplinary Universities of the country. It is yet another story of a
successful social entrepreneur which Achyuta has already been accepted. It was not his aim to open up an Industrial
Training Centre and then upgrade it to an Engineering College to mint money. Around this time, Achyuta started a
small school for 125 children belonging to the under-privileged section of the society. That small institute – Kalinga
Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) has now grown into the largest institute of the world for 20,000 tribal children,
who are provided with accommodation, food, health care and education from KG to PG absolutely free. Born out of
love, passion and dedication, KISS today stands testimony to Achyuta Samanta’s expression of feelings and his
sincerity to empower millions of under privileged aborigines through education. He has taken a very firm and bold
step towards the creation of an equitable world. Through KISS, Achyuta Samanta ensured that no child should ever
have a nightmarish shattered childhood. He now plays, father to nearly 20,000 children, as he knows what it meant to
be a fatherless child. Love and care helped the tribal children to shine in every field. Whether it is to represent the
nation in international sports or to secure position in various qualifying examinations, the indigenous children have
proved beyond any doubt that given scope, they could outshine everyone.Participation of world organizations like
UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA and US Federal Government in various projects of KISS prove that KISS has
become the most accepted model to empower and create sustainable livelihood through education.