North Orissa University Distance Education was established in the year 1998. It was separated from Utkal University and began operations as an affiliating college in 1999 at Takatpur (98.84 sections of land) in Baripada in the Mayurbhanj District of Odisha https://collegetour.in/north-orissa-university-directorate-of-distance-and-continuing-education-nou-mayurbhanj