Dyal Singh College, Delhi
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Motto | "Gather Ye The Wisdom of East And West" |
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Established | 1959 |
Academic affiliation | University of Delhi |
Principal | Inderjeet S. Bakshi[1] |
Location | Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 |
Campus | Urban |
Website |
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Dyal Singh College is a co-educational institute of University of Delhi. It was established in 1959 and is situated in Delhi. It offers undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses in science, the humanities and commerce.
Location
The college is centrally located at Lodhi Road in New Delhi near Lodhi Gardens, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Safdarjung Tomb, Humayun's Tomb, India Habitat Centre, India International Centre and many other institutions of national and international significance. The college is surrounded by prominent and splendid neighbourhoods, markets and societies as Khan Market, Golf Links, Jor Bagh, Rabindra Nagar, Delhi Golf Club, Delhi Race Club and so on. It is next to Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium Metro Station on the Violet Line of the Delhi Metro. The college has connectivity through buses of the Delhi Transport Corporation.
History
The college's origin arose from the estate of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, founder of The Tribune and Punjab National Bank, who willed his estate in 1895 for the establishment of an educational trust for a secular college. Consequently, Dyal Singh College was established at Lahore in 1910. After the Partition of India, Dyal Singh College was established in Karnal and Delhi. It started functioning in the capital as a constituent college of the University of Delhi in 1959 and was taken over by the University of Delhi as a university maintained institution in 1978.[2]
Departments
The college currently has the following departments.
Ranking
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General – India | |
NIRF (Colleges) (2018)[3] | 25 |
Dyal Singh College was ranked 25 among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2018.[3]
Notable alumni
- Govind Singh, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi[4]