Government College for Girls Sector 42 is affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh. It was established in 1982, before shifting to its present location, it was being run in the school building of Sector 19, Chandigarh. Today it has 150 dedicated teaching staff for 3500 students. The College is engaged in serving sound education to empower the girl students for last twenty nine years.
Government College for Girls Sector 42 has huge building with a beautiful
.....Continuing reading infrastructure. It also has a canteen that provides hygienic food. The Campus has vast playground which is used for many games and sports activities. The Campus has well maintained library that has large numbers of books and journals. The College has given many sports persons who have performed in National, Inter-State and Inter-College competitions. The College publishes a magazine named “SHIKHAR” that explores the creativity and visions of the students every year. The motto of the college is ‘Higher Still’ that motivates the students and evokes them to achieve their goals.
Government College for Girls Sector 42 has always been a better platform for the students. The College organizes many events such as extempore, poetry writing, essay writing, poetry reciting, story writing, painting and declamation for their students. Besides this, Blood Donation Camp, workshops and seminars are always organized in regular intervals of time.
Government College for Girls Sector 42 offers B.A (Hons. Course), B.A. (Functional English), PG. Diploma (In Translation from English to Hindi), Post-Graduation in English, Public Administration, Sociology and Zoology, PG Diploma in Guidance and Counseling, Post-Graduate Diploma (in Mass Communication), B.P.Ed (One year), Commerce, Science (Medical, Non-Medical, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Microbiology) and B.C.A. Besides this the college also provides few career oriented courses such as Event Management, Tourism and Travel management, Environmental Auditing, Animation and Graphics, Web Designing and Multimedia, Mass Communication and Video production, Disaster Management, Entrepreneurship.
With Collaboration of I.T Department (Chandigarh Administration), it also has been offering C-Toss programme since 2004. Government College for Girls Sector 42 is well blessed with the schemes and programmes of UGC like Travel Grants, Development plans, Teacher Fellowship Awards.....Reading in short