Affiliated to University of Delhi,
Deshbandhu College was established in the year 1952 by the Ministry of Rehabilitation, in the memory of late Sh. Deshbandhu Gupta-a veteran freedom fighter.
Deshbandhu College is located in Kalkaji, New Delhi and has made a humble beginning with just 72 students. The College was transferred to Ministry of Education and later was taken over by University of Delhi.
The
Deshbandhu College fraternity welcomes its students and is
.....Continuing reading very happy to embrace them in its fold. Located in south Delhi, the college is one of the oldest landmark institutions in the family of the colleges of the University of Delhi. Well-earned merit at the school final examinations may enable a student out of several hundreds and thousands to find a seat in this college for further academic pursuits.
The extensive campus of Deshbandhu College, with its lawns, gardens and widespread grounds provides a healthy environment for all round development of the generation next. The campus has an Administrative block, Arts block, an old block, a huge library and a Science block with well equipped laboratories, together with students' common rooms, a gymnasium and a canteen. The college is working enthusiastically towards realizing its plan for a women's hostel.
To promote self-learning and to satisfy the thirst for knowledge of the students, the Deshbandhu College library has a massive collection of about 90,000 books, a host of journals and magazines, a spacious reading room, a separate floor for teachers and research scholars, and a book bank section which lends text books to the students. The college encourages organization of seminars, lectures, workshops, N.S.S., N.C.C. and other co-curricular activities. A number of scholarships and financial aids are provided to meritorious and needy students each year.
Deshbandhu College is a fully maintained constituent college of University of Delhi and is one of the oldest and the largest co-educational institution in South Delhi. The college offers Arts, Commerce and Science courses. Deshbandhu College also offers eight post graduate and twenty undergraduate courses in disciplines ranging from languages, history, political science, economics, and commerce to all the major branches of science and mathematics and caters to over 2000 students every year. The different departments of Deshbandhu College are Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Zoology, Commerce, Economics, Hindi, English, History, Political Science, Sanskrit, and Physical Education.
Deshbandhu College is amongst the few colleges of University of Delhi which has offered Bengali as a subject since its beginning .The faculty of the college has published books and also features regularly in renowned Bengali Magazines. The department has also formed the Bengali Literary Society, which organizes seminars to improve the learning experience of its pupils and expose them to different trends. Students who opt for Bengali may find a career in Media and Translation work for nodal Ministries and Publishing houses.....Reading in short