Dyal Singh College( Quotodian acronym - DSC) was founded in accordance with the will of
Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, one of the greatest sons of Punjab, in Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh belonged to the Shergil or Gill clan of Sardars of Majitha
village near Amritsar. He is also well-known as the Founder of The Tribune
and one who bequeathed his largely self-earned assets including prestigi
ous
buildings in Lahore and lands in Amritsar, Lahore and Gurdaspur districts
worth about Rs.30 lakh in 1898 to two trusts which established Dyal Singh
College and Dyal Singh Public Library in Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh Majitha
was a great philanthropist and lover of education. A man of great vision and
action, he donated all his assets for the propagation of education. He had
an unusually farsighted vision. He wanted to generate a scientific outlook in
the minds of the common people who suffered from blind faith and
superstition. He wanted to eradicate orthodox and irrelevant views. A little lesser known fact is that Sardar Dyal Singh was one among the 17 "good men and true"
who decided in 1884 to found the Indian National Congress. He sailed for England in 1874, and in his
interactions with intellectual luminaries there, he gained an enormous intellect. While in India, he
came into contact with many architects of Modern India such as Rabindranath Tagore, Swami
Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mahadev Ranade, which influenced his beliefs
and thought processes. After independence, the torch of his three Trusts was kept alive in India. In the field of education,
one college was established at Karnaland another in Delhi by late Dewan Anand Kumar, an eminent
educationist and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Punjab University. The College 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 College in 1978. The College is centrally located at Lodhi Road in South Delhi in the
vicinity of Lodhi Gardens, Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Stadium , CII , WWF,
Safdarjung Tomb , Humayun Tomb, India Habitat Centre, India International
Centre, CGO Complex and many other institutions of national / international
significance. During recent years, the College has registered an impressive quantitative and
qualitative improvement. The quality of the incoming students and the
University results have shown a progressive upward movement; the addition
of essential amenities and other facilities for students has made the College
a prestigious institution for academic and co-curricular activities. The College magazine, The NEW STAR provides a forum to the students for expressing their views and reviewing the various activities during the year. Presently, the College is imparting education to 3300 students including foreign students in 19 courses (including 2 post graduate courses) through 19 departments consisting of over 200 well qualified faculty members and about 100 non teaching staff members. The faculty of the College has been encouraged to take interest in research programmes besides teaching and at present eight research programmes are going on in the College in the departments of Physics, Chemistry, Political Science and Commerce. Presently, the College has the following infrastructure ;
1. 48 class rooms, including 07 eco friendly bamboo based classrooms
2. 18 Laboratories (including computer labs)
3. A seminar hall with a seating capacity of 120,
4. One open air amphitheatre with a seating capacity of 1000,
5. An auditorium with a seating capacity of 210 with state of art facilities
6. A well equipped library with over 90000 books, a large number of periodicals and journals and internet facility.
7. A spacious canteen.
8. The College has a generator for power back up
9. Security Lights for sufficient visibility during night
10. A 600 KVA Electric Panel
11. Synthetic basket ball court
12. 40 computer with internet enabled laboratory for students and faculty
13. Furnished faculty Rooms
14. A prize winning lush green lawn
15. Court for cricket net practice / 6 courts for badminton / 2 courts for volley ball
16. air conditioned computer laboratory with 80 computers linked through optic fiber to University of Delhi.
17. Wi-fi enabled campus
18. 215 trees
