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Welcome to Hansraj - one of the largest constituent Colleges of the University of Delhi - a premier institution, with highly qualified academicians imparting education in different fields, the College today enjoys a reputation for outstanding performance in academics, sports and extra-curricular activities. Rated among top ten Colleges of the country in Science, Commerce & Arts. The College ensures complete development of the body, mind and the soul while enshrining traditional Indian values in each of its students. The College was founded by the D.A.V. College Managing Committee on July 26, 1948 in the sacred memory of Mahatma Hansraj, a pioneer in the field of education. It is today one of the leading lights in the D.A.V. family of over 700 institutions and one of the largest constituent Colleges of Delhi University. More than 5000 students on its rolls interact here with a galaxy of scholars on its faculty. The College has completed 67 years in the realm of imparting higher education. It has made significant and unparalleled contribution to Society in terms of producing numerous dignitaries scholars, intellectuals and sports persons who served different domains not only in our own country but even at international levels. Over the years, the College has built up an impressive infrastructure. It includes a well-stocked Central Library, Department libraries for Science subjects and a Book Bank for needy students. The College has six Computer Labs. and 18 Science laboratories. Its sports facilities include vast play ground, an Indoor Sports Complex, Playrooms,amphetheatre,lift facility and the only Electronic Shooting Range in the University.
The College has an Ultra modern air-conditioned Auditorium fitted with latest sound and light systems with a seating capacity of 500 persons and an imposing stage. Another attraction is an air-conditioned Seminar Room with a seating capacity of 120 fitted with state of the art sound and projection systems. The College has a hostel accommodating about 200 undergraduate boys and is fitted with solar geysers and 24hrs. power back up. As you enter the portals of this institution, the calm, serene atmosphere of a beautiful campus surrounded by lush green lawns and a magnificent heritage building touch your soul. For the benefit of meritorious and needy students, the College provides a number of Scholarships and Freeships. It also provided on its premises ATM and Banking facilities through a branch of Canara Bank. The College also has a Placement Cell for providing employment opportunities to graduating students through campus recruitments in the best of national and international organizations.
Mahatma Hansraj, the man in whose memory this college has been founded was a great nationalist at heart, besides being an educationist and a religious organizer. He was also an untiring relief worker and social reformer, organizing relief work during earthquakes at Kangra (1905), Quetta (1934), Bihar (1935), famines of Rajasthan (1905), Awadh (1907), and Garhwal (1918). He upheld widow remarriage and strongly advocated the abolition of early marriages and caste distinctions. By his efforts he turned Arya Samaj and DAV institutions into effective instruments of social upliftment and moral regeneration.
The Mission
The DAV vision of education telescopes well with the National Policy on Education (1986) which lays great emphasis on developing a national system of education, with Education For All, keeping in mind the elimination of disparities in the educational system and provision of more facilities through qualitative interventions, empowerment of women, access to education to disadvantaged sections of the society, educationally backward minorities and the disabled. It also calls for greater rigour and discipline in academic pursuits, autonomy and accountability, experimentation and innovation and nurture excellence and modernization of processes at different levels of education. In order to accomplish the mission, the objectives laid down are as under:
To provide a wide range of holistic education by homogenizing the western knowledge while remaining anchored to the Indian cultural moorings;
To act as a catalyst of change by spreading education, and by dismantling the cobwebs of ignorance and illiteracy;
To develop individuals who are morally upright, intellectually well-informed, socially concerned, emotionally balanced, physically well-developed and culturally accomplished;
To stimulate a scientific temper by crusading against superstitions and out-dated customs like child marriage, caste system, female foeticide, dowry, gender bias, regionalism etc;
To sensitize individuals towards social welfare and To nurture creative and resourceful minds who think big, think fast and think ahead, who care for the nation and the weaker sections of society, and are imbued with humanistic passions and values.
The Vision
The DAV has a clear-cut vision:
To continue expanding and exploring, locally and globally and be a knowledge leader and content provider.
To muster strategies to become a global epicenter of knowledge, culture, skills, technology, research and service.
To empower women through education.
