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The College Enters Its Golden Jubilee Year – A Report

 

A function to mark beginning of year-long Golden Jubilee Celebration was held on the Foundation Day of the College on August17, 2006. Prof. Deepak Pental, The Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi was the Chief Guest on the august occasion. Prof. R.S. Sharma, Vice President, All India DAV Management Committee, presided over the proceedings. The distinguished gathering included Sh. M.L. Khanna, Sh. R. P. Bansal, Justice Mittal and Sh.S. L. Suri, Vice Presidents of DAV Management, Prof. Mohan Lal, Secretary, DAV Management, Sh.      Regional General Manager of Central Bank of India and Sh. S. L. Sharma of Rotary Club, Delhi Central . Faculty members of the college and its Evening counterpart participated in large numbers along with the students.

Prof. Pental recalled his early student days at a DAV School and later at DAV college at Chandigarh. He dwelt at length on what ails education today, new trends of state abdicating its responsibility of educating every child, paid rich tributes to the tradition of DAV  and saluted those great visionary institution builders who have created this chain of over 700 schools and colleges, including engineering and medical colleges and institutes of management.

Prof. R. S. Sharma highlighted many facets of the activities of the DAV organisation and its efforts to educate masses. In fact the guiding principle as Prof, Sharma put it was ‘taking high class education to masses at a reasonable cost’.

The college Principal Dr. P. K. Jain took this opportunity to apprise the gathering of the future development plans of the college and its need and requirements. He made a reference to the humble beginnings in a few rented rooms and a tent on the top of DAV School,  Paharganj and traced developments at the present location as a multi-faculty institution with 48 teaching rooms including two well equipped computer labs, seminar hall, over 110 teachers and 2400 plus students.

 

Sant Bharati, the President of Old Students’ Association assured that his organisaton, through its vast network will do everything possible to help the college achieve greater heights in the years to come.  

 

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  The Programmes Planned For The Golden Jubilee Year 

 

·        The College is planned a huge number of programmes to mark its Golden Jubilee Year. Some of the highlights are as follows:

 

 

bulletDayanand Saraswati Memorial Lectures :  A series of lectures on Indian culture, religions, history, philosophy, arts and architecture and contemporary issues are being planned.

 

It is proposed to make lecture on these themes an annual event on the academic calendar of the college.

 

bulletThe college is approaching Dr. Karan Singh to deliver the Inaugural Lecture on Religion and Contemporary India, in the month of October.

 

bulletThe Second Lecture in the Series in the month of November is to be devoted to Politics and Youth.

 

bulletArts Today will be the theme of third lecture and Dr. Rajiv Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Arts is being approached for the same. 

 

bulletThe fourth fixture in the series is being planned is expected to be an Illustrated Talk on Archeology in India.

 

·        Various Departments in the college are preparing and fine tuning their plans to organise lectures and symposia.

 

bulletThe Political Science Department plans to hold lectures on:

 

 

Gandhi in Contemporary India, and

The Right to Information Act.

 

bulletThe English Department is finalising plans to hold a Slide Show on Greek Theater.

 

bulletThe Commerce and Economic Departments are finalising their plans to hold day long National Seminars on :

 

Emerging Business Scenario in India, and The Road ahead for the Indian Economy

 

·        Departments of Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Computer Science are chalking out plans for various Inter College Competitions in their respective fields.

 

·        A day long seminar on Sports for All  is in the pipeline. The other Inter College Sports events on the calendar are tournaments devoted to:

 

Athletics,

Cricket,

Football,

Judo,

Volleyball, and

Wrestling.

 

·        The Fine Arts and Cultural Society of the College has lined up:

 

Inter College Debates in English and Hindi,

Inter College Competition: Vocal Music,

Inter College Competition: Instrumental Music, and

Inter College Competition:  Dance

 

·        In addition, live performances by noted Classical singers and Ghazal singers are being planned.

 

·        The cultural programmes will conclude with a gala Cultural Evening                        

 

·        Another ambitious programme to be taken up during the year will be Human Development Survey of the some Slums in Delhi.

 

·        Placement Cell of the college plans for enhanced interaction between the employers and the college students. They plan to bring out a brochure for this purpose.

 

 

bulletThe Alumni Association is also coming out with a big set of events during the year.

 

 

Watch out for the specific announcements of the above programmes in the days to come.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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