COLLEGE PROFILE
D.A.V College for Girls, Yamuna Nagar, is a premier educational institute of the northern region of India. Accredited ‘B++’ by NAAC, the College has the rare distinction of being chosen as ‘The College with Potential for Excellence’ by UGC in the second phase too and also as ‘The Best Women College’ by Kurukshetra University. Over the years, the College has evolved into a brand in female education. The long and impressive list of achievements over the last decade is a testimony to its expanding footprint and impact across northern regions of our country.
A multi-faculty, post-graduate institution, D.A.V. College for Girls offers a wide choice of courses in all disciplines-humanities, science and commerce with 13 post graduate courses including PG Diplomas, 6 honors courses, 14 UGC sponsored Add-on-courses, 10 certificate and diploma courses and 26 hobby courses to an impressive strength of more than 4000 students. The College reached an important milestone on being included in the list of 48 colleges/universities selected out of 702 for establishing DDU KAUSHAL Kendra by UGC under the XII Plan of Government of India. Under this Scheme, the College has introduced 6 B.Voc., M.Voc. and 7 Courses under Community College.
Realising the rapid changes and advances in technology and the growing needs of our smart and gadget-savvy students, the college continues to add and update the existing infrastructure and offers the best of the facilities within its wi-fi college campus. With Entrepreneur Resource Planning (ERP), the college enables on-line registration, admission, lessons, notices, attendance and also more efficient office-administration. With 5 academic blocks including 68 classrooms, 72 labs including 8 smart class rooms/seminar rooms, an air-conditioned library providing access to e-publication through INFLIBNET and DELNET networks, 2 air-conditioned Audio-Visual rooms, state-of-the-art Mass Communication Lab, Naturopathy Centre with excellent facilities like Sauna Bath, Jacuzzi, Steam Bath, a Gym fitted with latest machines and gadgets, A Shooting Range, Rain Water Harvesting Plant, a state-of-the-art Swimming Pool, a fleet of buses, surfing cell for students, Fire Fighting Students and a fully air-conditioned Auditorium with a capacity of 500 seats, and a huge outdoor stage with latest lighting and equipments, all constitute part of the massive infrastructure consolidated over the last decade. The College added Solar Energy Plan (SEP) of 100 KW each in the college and the hostel to its impressive list of infrastructure last session.
In addition to this, the college also accommodates more than 650 students from suburbs and neighbouring states in two hostel buildings and makes every possible effort to make their stay here homely and comfortable. With a modern kitchen, 24 hour power back-up, internet facility, 4 common rooms, 9 guest rooms, a tuck-shop, washing machines with 50 kg load capacity, a Tumble Dryer, a Hydro Extractor and a gym.
The college has been recording excellent academic achievements of our students year after year. With 49 university positions in Kurukshetra University examinations held last session, our students have proved their academic excellence yet again.
In cultural activities, our college has proved its superiority among all the colleges of Kurukshetra University. This year too in the 41st Zonal Youth Festival held in Spetember-2018 our students participated in 33 cultural items out of which 12 were recommended and 11 commended and also won overall trophies for music, Fine Arts and literary events. At Inter Zonal Youth Festival held at Pundri in November 2018, two items from our College were recommended and six commended. Our Haryanavi Group Dance stood 1st in 19th Global Female Folk Dance Festival, an international event, held at Ghaziabad in January-2019. Our students have performed extraordinary well in cultural competitions at all levels.
With professional coaching, special training, hard-work and zeal, our students have performed extremely well in sports. For more than a decade the college has maintained the first position in women colleges of Kurukshetra University and this year we stood second among all the women colleges affiliated to Kurukshetra University. Our students won 24 gold, 26 silver and 23 bronze medals in various international, national and university level competitions this session.
The N.S.S. and N.C.C. units of the college organise activities and camps for the students to develop their organizational skills and to create opportunities for them to realize their true potential and become responsible citizens and confident individuals. For the last 16 years the N.S.S. unit of the college has been organising blood donation camp annually to make students aware and conscious of their duty and feel proud of their unique gift of life to the needy.
The women cell of the college also organises activities for the students to make them aware of their legal rights, instill in them a consciousness and desire to live with dignity and self-esteem. The various clubs in the college like Eco-Club, Scholars' Club, Youth Club, Red-Ribbon Club and DAV Phulwari also provide the students opportunities to express their creativity, cultivate their special interests and commitment to social cause.
Besides the regular courses, the college also runs 3 UGC centres: Women Studies Centre, Gandhian Studies Centre and Nehru Studies Centre which are basically engaged in research projects but also offer short-term courses to the students to acquaint them with the life, philosophy and vision of these great men and their relevance in the modern world.
Realizing the responsibility of the college towards substantial help to the students in finding jobs in an atmosphere of cut-throat competitions, the placement cell of the college does a commendable job by arranging campus placements for the students to give them an initial push in the professional world. This year too, our 223 students were offered jobs in companies like IBM Daksh & Tech-Mahindra and many more through campus placement.
Besides the regular contribution of the faculty in publishing research articles and papers in various international and national journals including 'Coherence', and a Multi Disciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, the peer review pubished by the College Annually, the various departments regularly organise and attend international and national seminars and conferences each session.
The College year book ‘Divyasudha’ records each and every activity and achievements of the College and also provides a platform to the students to express their views creatively through articles, stories and poems, etc.
Keeping our focus on learning and improvement, we strive to achieve yet higher goals in academic, sports and cultural fields and scale the new heights of excellence, perfection and glory.