Government College, Chittur

The Chittur College is Second Government College in erstwhile Cochin State, on 11th August, 1947.  During initial phase college was hosted by Government Victoria Girls High School in it campus. College was affiliated to University of Madras and offered intermediate level course in Malayalam, Mathematics, Commerce, Accountancy, Logic, Music, and Modern Indian History. At graduation level it offered BA programmes in Philosophy and Economics, Mathematics. Later, in July 1949 it got affiliated to Travancore University after emergence of Travancore-Cochin State. Later, on BA Mathematics complying with regulations of new university was converted to BSc Mathematics.
The college was allotted physical space on the banks of Shokanashini River in Chittur-Tattamangalam area. The Campus development started with laying of foundation stone on 18th November 1949 by His Highness Rajapramukh of Cochin.
The campus started taking shape during late forties and early fifties. By 1954 the main building was ready and was probably the largest of the building in the locality. Built with lime mortar as binding material the building still stands all among the modern structures that have come up recently. On 28th June, 1954 this new house of learning was declared open by then Chief Minister of Kerala Shri. Pattom Thanu Pillai.
Meantime in 1951-52 B.Com course got introduced and later in 1954 -55 intermediate programme in Science started its initial steps.
Chittur College spanned out to become a full-fledged Arts and Science college by 1956-57 with introduction of B.Sc. programmes in Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. The intermediate courses were also upgraded to Pre-University programmes during the same time and consequently the in 1957-58 graduations programmes were extended to duration of three years. B.A. in Music was also introduced in 1957-58 academic year.
On 1st November 1956, State of Kerala dawned into the Indian Union and in the subsequent year the Travancore University was transformed and re-christened as University of Kerala. Thus, Chittur College got affiliated to University of Kerala.