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When we see the beginning of anything, usually it would have preceded at inception in someone’s aspirations, thoughts, or efforts. It is entirely true in the context of any institution. The story of the establishment of this college is also somewhat similar. In the memory of Pandit Ramnirikshan, an erudite teacher of the Bihar Vidyapeeth and a close friend of India’s first president Bharat Ratna Rajendra Prasad, his able son Shri Girish Babu (Advocate) with his other siblings and some other people from his village including Shri Baleshwar Ram (then minister), Shri Amaresh Babu (magistrate) with their advice, cooperation and support established a co-educational institution in 1968 at their ancestral village ‘Samartha’ in Dalsinghsarai block under Samastipur sub-division of then Darbhanga district in the state of Bihar which was named Ram Nirikshan Memorial College (Ram Nirikshan Smarak Mahavidyalaya). Shortly, the founding members transferred the institution to Samastipur in 1969 with the aim of expanding it on a larger front. The college was first conducted in the premises of Model High School, Bahadurpur, Samastipur, and later some private and public premises for short durations before being established at its present location- a meeting point or junction of the rural and urban areas, the land for which was donated by some philanthropists and social workers. Here, after a generous fund was donated by another philanthropist late Pandit Atma Ram Mishra’s able son Shri Data Ram Mishra, the institution was renamed Ram Nirikshan Atma Ram College, Samastipur. At the time of its establishment, the college was affiliated to the B.R. Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur. After the establishment of the Lalit Narayan Mithila University in 1972, the college was made affiliated to it and in 1971 it became a constituent unit. The college is registered under clause 2(f) of the UGC Act.