Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College
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| Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College | |
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| Established | 1959 |
| Type | Government supported |
| Principal | Dr. Rajesh Mohan |
| Location | South Campus, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi |
| Affiliations | University of Delhi |
| Website | www.arsdcollege.net |
Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College (ARSD College), formerly Sanatan Dharma College, is a co-educational constituent college of the University of Delhi. The college was founded on August 3, 1959 by the Sanatan Dharma Sabha, Delhi. Late Shri Atma Ram Chadha, a well-known philanthropist, took over as chairman of the college governing body in the year 1967. The current chairman is Mr. Chander Mohan Chadha.
The college moved to the present site at Dhaula Kuan in July 1965. The campus covers an area of 11.3 acres (46,000 m2).
The college has highly qualified and experienced teaching faculty with scholars of international repute, and efficient non-teaching staff, the college is progressing towards achieving excellence in academics,sports and extra curricular activities. The physics department of the college is one of the top notch departments in the Delhi University circuit. The college has an impressive double-storeyed building comprising class rooms, lecture halls, a seminar room, department rooms, well-equipped physics, chemistry, computer and electronics laboratories, a well-stocked excellent library, laden with over 90,000 books and latest up-to-date journals, common rooms for girls and boys, a canteen, and an administrative block. The college maintains beautiful lawns, spacious playgrounds and has elaborate sports facilities ranging from cricket, football, volleyball, basketball and even indoor sports like chess, table tennis, etc.
Special accolades have gone to ARSD, for its very proficient dramatics society, Rangayan which has performed a lot of award winning plays and dramas all over Delhi. They are trained from the finest of the actors of NSD, or the National School of Drama. Their most recent work was the play Dilli Chalo by Utpal Dutta. The college has also a lot of movie-making talent and has won the award for the best documentary in Lady Shri Ram College, on November 2009. The computer department has 40 state-of-the-art machines that proliferate enhanced programming skills within the students of computer science.
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