During its inception it was named Dhekiajuli College but later on, in the year 1975, it was renamed to Lokanayak Omeo Kumar Das College after Late Omeo Kumar Das, the first Education Minister of Assam in Independent India.
At present it imparts education to more than 3500 students with three faculties: Arts, Science and Commerce.
Originally, the college offered education in higher secondary and degree only in Arts.
To meet the growing demand opened by the corporate enterprises, the college started the B.Com Three Years Degree Course in the session 2010–11.
[2] The motto of the college is: tamaso maa jyotirgamaya, which translates to "lead us from darkness to light".