Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College (A.D.P. College) is the name of a temple of learning, the very utterance of which brings ‘Ananda’ i.e. ‘Joy’ in mind. The college is named after the illustrious son of Asom, Anandaram Dhekial Phookan.

                        The Asam Sahitya Sabha Session held at Nagaon in 1959, through a resolution, urged the people to establish a college in the name of that hallowed personality to bring to light his wishes of spreading knowledge. Thus the college was established at first as Night College, and later on transformed to Day College with Night Section as a shift. During the tenure of late Abdul Hye as Principal, the Science stream was opened in 1978 to meet the aspiration of the students of the district.

                        Situated away from the din and bustle of the town and on the bank of the river Kollong, the college is an ideal one for academic pursuit. Students from urban and rural areas have been converging to this institution for decades since to pursue higher studies.

                        It is our proud privilege to mention that our college has been awarded ‘B’ grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 2004.

                        We organise an annual lecture in memory of Anandaram Dhekial Phookan which is delivered by a person of eminence in the field of literature.

  Goals and Objectives of the College

                        The Mission and goals of the college are to disseminate education in humanities and science to meet the needs and aspirations of the people of Asom in general and of Nagaon district in particular, irrespective of caste, creed, religion and sex.

                        The college was initially started in 1959 as a Night college in Arts stream with the initial objective of offering scope to the earner-learners who were unable to attend day time institutions in spite of their strong desire to pursue higher education.

                        Later on, to meet the needs and aspirations of the growing population, the college was converted to a Day college in Arts stream in 1964 with night section as a shift. The Science section was introduced in 1978.

  A new era arrives in the college

                        Ushering into a new era of vocationalization of higher education under the dynamic leadership of our Principal Dr. S. U. Ahmed, the college has introduced two new vocational subjects (1) Bio-Technology (2) Computer Application at the degree level from this session to be offered any one of these as an elective subject in the Pass Course. This has been done with keeping in mind the reluctance on the part of students to go for basic science because of dearth of employment avenues. With the introduction of vocational subjects we feel that students will have ample scope in procuring a livelihood after the completion of the course. Short-term vocational courses in following subjects were introduced in college under U.G.C programme from the session 2006-2007.

  1. Electronics Instruments Maintenance 3 month certificate course – Entry  level H.S.

  2. Mushroom cultivation 3 month certificate course.

 The college has also plans to introduce the following two vocational subjects as and when U.G.C. gives nods.

            1. Principle and Practice of Insurance.

             2. Functional English.

                        The UGC sanctioned for the introduction of following schemes for academic improvement of the weaker sections in our college.

            1. Remedial coaching for Minority students.

            2. Remedial coaching for SC/ST students.

            3. Coaching for Entry into services for SC/ST students.

            4. Coaching for Entry into services for Minority students.

                        The UGC has also granted permission to set up the following study centres in our college.

            1. Women Study centre.

            2. Gandhian Study centre.

            We have also received some grant from U.G.C to organize seminars in Human Rights and Value-Added Education.

            In an effort to bring up the existing infrastructure into higher level of growth an R.C.C. building has been built with the financial help of UGC for the dept. of Botany. All the existing Science Laboratories are equipped with new addition of sophisticated instruments. Mention may be made of instruments like research microscope and overhead projector for the dept. of Botany and Zoology, Laminas flow for the dept. of Botany which have been procured recently.

            We believe in imparting education with state of art audio visual aids. With this object in view a model class room is being set up which is equipped with LCD Projector, T.V., D.V.D., Tape cum CD player, Home Theatre, Marker Board.

            The college has its own website (WWW.adpcollege.org) which is being updated from time to time. We have facilities like Internet, Fax, Pay phone, xerox MACHINE at the college library which students can use by paying a nominal charge. We have a photo copier-scanner-printer all in one. Students can avail all these facilities in furtherance of their wealth of knowledge. to beat the heat we have 4 nos. of Generators for emergency service.

It is our proud privilege to inform that our college is given the rating of 'B' by National Assessment and Accreditation Council on the basis of a visit by peer team sent by the council IN THE YEAR 2004.