Gopabandhu Das

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Daitari Das and Swarnamayee Devi were his parents. His mother died soon after the birth of Gopabandhu and he was brought up by his paternal aunt. Amidst adversity he completed matriculation in 1899 from Puri zilla school and entered Ravenshaw College to study Arts. After graduation, he pursued law degree in 1906 and he successfully completed it. But, he did not thrive on law profession.
Having realised the pitiable plight of people of Utkal in every aspects of their lives, he thought that education would solve the myriad problems of oriyas and thus he experimented his educational ideas at Sakhigopal on 12th August, 1909. This institution was named as Satyabadi System of education or Vana Vidyalya.
He dedicated the rest of his life for the upliftment of pupils and people. His enduring social service to the poorest of the poor, destitute and deserved during natural calamities like flood, famine and fire gives him a indelible mark of a true social worker believing in deeds but not words. In the political arena, he took the leadership of our struggle for independence and he sustained a life of prisoner many a times.

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