It is not easier to speak literal explanation of this wise saying of
the aforesaid mystical saint. But in the light of his perceptive
intellect it may be construed that nothing is possible without
acquiring sufficiency and efficiency in the field of knowledge. It has
been observed particularly since the remote antiquity that the name
and fame earned by accumulating huge wealth or the post and position
however high held by accumulating huge wealth or the post and position
however high held by applying all sorts of tactics, trickery,
maneuvering and manipulations do not provide such brightness, glory
and gloss to any individual family or society as only education does.
Keeping this fact in mind, after the attainment of independence. It
was felt that the education that helped to create to awareness during
national movement for liberty could also help to achieve freedom from
fear, want, diseases, ignorance, squalor and elimination of poverty by
the application and development of knowledge. With the passage of time
and all that came and went with it, the achievement of knowledge
through meditation or penances lost their relevance. During nearly two
centuries of British dominion and introduction of Macaley system, the
significance of knowledge had changed from value to price. To acquire
knowledge meant achieve it through academic institutions like schools,
colleges and universities. Under such circumstances, an institution
for higher education in Bihta a rural area of Patna district was
assumed to be the need of the hour that may provide an opportunity to
reflect on the critical , social, economical, cultural, moral and
spiritual issues facing the rural masses of all categories. It was
further felt, a college, if established will stand for humanism,
increase in tolerance with reasoning, adventure of idea, search of
truth thereby providing quality of leadership in politics,
administration, profession, trade, commerce and industry.
With this mission in mind, Pram Pujya Sri GADADHARACHARYA alias MACHA
BABA conceived the idea to start a college to impart education to the
children of the poor people of this rural area. His brain child was
translated on the ground with the help of local people in the form of
Sri Gadadharachaya Janta College, Rambagh, Bihta (Patna) now popularly
know as G. J. College, Rambagh, Bihta (Patna) as a proposed college in
1958. It got affiliation on 21st June 1959 up to B.A. by then Bihar
University. It got permanent affiliation upto B.A . in 1965 by Magadh
University, Gaya under the stewardship of Late Awadhesh Kumar Sinha as
the Principal of the college. This college got permission to start
Hons. in Economics, Pol. Sc. and then in Hindi.
Science education was started from 1969 in Phy, Chem, and Maths and
from 1970 in Biology (Zoo. & Bot.). This college got permanent
affiliation in Science from 1974-75. On 1st April 1977 this college
became a constituent unit of Magadh University, Bodh Gaya.
The dream of its founder MACHA BABA has became a reality as this
college is imparting degree level education in Arts and Science up to
Hons. to the rural population of this area. This college has completed
50 years and in this Golden Jubilee year it is going to add one more
feather to its cap by starting B. Com. Hons., teaching from the
academic session 2009-10 which is the need of changing world.
Our Ex Principal