Foundation and Background

A person of vision and action with firm commitment to upgrade the economic and educational status of the people in eastern region of the Uttar Pradesh especially in the Awadh region, which was lagging behind in the race of development, Late Sri Kedar Nath Singh, conceived the need for establishing educational institutions, from primary level upto post graduate level with excellence and high academic standards.

       

With this vision, he founded Kamla Nehru Memorial Society in 1971 under the umbrella of which the first institution of higher learning named as Kamla Nehru Intitute of Science and Technology was established in 1973 on a vast flood prone devastated ravine land covering about 143.95 acre area which was later embanked from three sides. The institute has got railway track on the west side and a state high way passing from the middle connecting Faizabad in the north, Allahabad in the south , Lucknow in the west and upto Ballia and Varanasi in the east.

On the right side of the road the Institute has expanse on the bank of the mighty river Gomati (also known as ADI GANGA) with panoramic view through embankment and avenue trees from three sides. The left side of the road covering a length of about 1 kilometer, is Krishi Vigyan Kendra with lush green lawns, orchard, avenue trees, ornamental plants, buildings and attractive demonstration units for the training of farmers, farmwomen and rural youth.

In 1973 the Society was rechristened as Kamla Nehru Memorial Trust. to achieve the under mentioned objectives

Objectives

(i)                   To establish, maintain and administer institutions for elementary, higher secondary, professional and higher education to benefit each and every sections of the society.

(ii)                 To organize & coordinate government/ non-government sponsored activities for socio-economic and cultural empowerment of the under privileged/ economically depressed people.

(iii)                To organize and coordinate activities sponsored by state, central and international agencies for health cover, drinking water, housing, disaster management and environmental protection including soil and water conservation, land reclamation, drainage and irrigation, social and farm forestry, village sanitation and energy conservation/ management.

(iv)                Advancement of Science and Technology through teaching, research, location specific testing and technology dissemination for large scale application by the people.

(v)                  To establish libraries, information, education and communication centres for awareness, people education and advancement of welfare programmes in rural and urban areas.

(vi)                To organize non-formal, adult and continuing education for people representing rural and urban areas through Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jan Sikshan Sansthan Industrial Training Institutes,Polytechniques and other vocational institutions.

(vii)               To organize and promote government/ non-government supported activities in public private and people partnership mode to generate greater income and employment opportunities for resource poor people in rural and urban areas.

(viii)             To aid and financially support the meritorious students/ scholars of socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society.

(ix)               To organize government/ non-government sponsored health  and welfare camps for animals and human being and to help the physically challenged people.

(x)                 To help men, women workers and artisans to organize self-help groups for promotion and management of social and economic development activities.

(xi)               To create government/ non-government assisted infrastructure for capacity building, entrepreneurship development in marketing, insurance, transportation, storage, processing etc.  in farm and non-farm sectors.

(xii)              To create resources like land, building, funds and other moveable/ immoveable assets for initiating, organizing, managing and maintaining the aforesaid activities/ institutions.

Member of The Trust

1.           Babu Shree Nath Singh                                        Patron

2.           Sri Mohd. Ameen Siddiqui                                    President

3.           Sri Vinod Singh                                                 Secretary

4.           Sri Rajeshwar Prasad Singh                                  Member

5.           Pandit Ram Baran Dwivedi                                    Member

6.           Sri Jitendra Bahadur Singh                                    Member

7.           Sri Raj Kishore Singh                                           Member

8.           Sri Sadhu Charan Singh                                        Member

9.           Sri Vasheer Ahmad                                              Member

10.         Sri Rakesh Dwivedi                                               Member

11.         Sri Pankaj Tandon                                                Member

12.         Sri Arvind Singh                                                    Member

13.         Sri D. N. Srivastava                                               Member

14.         Sri Ajay Singh                                                      Member

15.         Sri V. K. Singh                                                     Member

A March with Pace and Progress

The growth of the Institute with leaps and bound in only three year period provided the way to rise as a multi faculty Institution with Commerce, Arts , Science, Law and Education faculties at undergraduate level and by the end of decade the Institution had post graduate programs in 8 subjects representing the aforesaid faculties.

 In the advent of having a full fledged faculty of Engineering and Technology in the year 1976, the needful initiatives were taken by the Trust and as a result of consistent efforts. It was established in 1980 as a fully financed institution by government of Uttar Pradesh which is presently being looked after by a separate management committee. As a result of this development the original name as Kamla Nehru Institute of Science and Technology has also been rechristened as Kamla Nehru Institute of Physical and Social Sciences. In the same continuity two more institutions i.e. Kamla Nehru Krishi Vigyan Kendra in 1976 and Kamla Nehru Institute of Child Education in 1984 were established. With a dream to maintain academic excellence at par with any best institution of the national and international repute in the country, he created a very congenial environment and the infrastructure which is essential for the purpose.   

In the year 2004 a full fledged campus on 75 acre land which falls in boundary of village Faridipur at a distance of four kilometer from the main campus, has been established under the dynamic leadership of Shri Vinod Singh, the son and successor of the founder Late Sri.K.N. Singh to cope up the demand from a large number of students in professional and technical subjects.  

The new campus has got five faculties viz. a college of Pharmacy, Management Studies, Education, Agriculture and Engineering. The new campus has got distinction bestowed with unique natural and pollution free peaceful environment on the state highway Faizabad- Allahabad bypass which also connects Lucknow, Varanasi, Allahabad & upto extreme east of .U.P i.e. Ballia.

 

 An Introduction to the Founder

 

 

 

 

Late Sri Kedar Nath Singh M.Com L.L.B. S/o Late Sri Thakur Ram Pal Singh and Smt. Jagwanti Singh was born in 1928 in a farmer family of a remote village ‘Balua’ about 65 k.m. from Dist. Sultanpur, He got his education from Sultanpur upto higher secondary followed by bachelors degree from Udai Pratap College Varanasi and M.Com. L.L.B. from Allahabad University in year 1955. He took active part in students politics led by Indian Students Congress and jailed twice for participation in Quit India Movement of 1942.Through his continuous struggle for liberation against poverty and his sacrifice for the poor Sri Singh maintained his untiring efforts for autonomy of the university and students participation in social and political movement. He fought for the social justice and welfare of the depressed and a deprived people. He got his political status as Member of Parliament in 1971.He was inducted as Union Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs ( 1971-74) and   Agriculture and Irrigation 1974-77 in the Central Government headed by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi.

 

 Sri Singh was a widely travelled person across the world in 16 countries. His consistent efforts for modernization through academic excellence and application of science and technology will always be remembered by millions of people in India.

About the Secretary of the Trust

Born in 1957 Sri Vinod Singh S/o Late Sri K.N. Singh has developed his leadership capacity from student life while studying in University of Delhi, from where he got his Bachelor Degree in Arts and Master Degree in Political Science in the year 1980. He pursued his Bachelor degree in Law from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia University, Faizabad in the year 1986.

He started his career as a Law practicener at Allahabad High Court as a junior of the then Advocate General Sri S. S. Bhatnagar. Along with his active participation as Law practicener he got himself deeply involved as a youth Congress worker during nineties. However, on account of premature death of the founder Sri K.N. Singh, he had no option except to take the reigns as Secretary of the Kamla Nehru Memorial Trust and as Manager of all the Institutions run by it along with his social and political responsibility for the welfare of the people of Sultanpur District and now at state level as a Minister in the U.P. Government.

It is his dynamic and vibrant leadership on account of which he was elected as M.L.A. on May 11 2007 and on  May 13, 2007 he was inducted as Minister of State (Independent Charge) Tourism in the U.P. Government.