Govt. College, Aatingal

       The Government College, Attingal was started as a Junior College in August, 1975. The institution was formally inaugurated on 29/8/1975 by Sri. Vakkom Purushothaman, the then Hon. Minister for labour. Prof. H. M. Kassim who was initially appointed Special Officer, became the first Principal of the College. With the opening of this college, a long felt need of this area was fulfilled.

           The college started functioning with a student strength of 160 in 2 batches of Pre-degree class of 80 students each. In view of the heavy rush for admission more batches were sanctioned by the University in course of time. The Institution was raised to the status of a first grade College in the academic Year 1978-79 with the starting of B. Com. Degree course. In 1979-1980, Economics was introduced at the Degree level. M.A. Economics was started during the year 1993-94. When the Government decided to de-link the Pre-degree courses from colleges within the time Schedule of 3 years, 1/3 of the total batches of Pre-degree was reduced during the year 1997-98 and 2/3 was reduced during 1998-99. From 1999-2000 there were no admission for Pre-degree courses.