Govt. Gandhi Memorial Science College, Jammu, recent Prince of Wales College, is a combination of days of yore and contemporaneity:
A foundation that has its underlying foundations in the chronicles of history and has developed and developed from that point forward, in order to be safeguarded as a piece of our instructive and social legacy. The school with its air of history and legacy goes back to 1905, when His Highness, Maharaja Sir Pratap Singh reported the opening of the school as Prince of Wales College. This was to recognize the visit of His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales, the future King George V. Maharaja Pratap Singh, an altruistic ruler and an extraordinary visionary of his occasions, accordingly, made the main organization of higher learning in the whole Jammu locale.
Sovereign of Wales College really began working from twentieth April 1907 in the then Ajaibghar. It had 26 understudies on its roll and Prof. R.N. Mukherjee directed as the Principal of the College. The establishment stone of the present school grounds was laid in July 1904, in the midst of a huge rich green zone of around sixty-five sections of land, by the then Resident of Kashmir, Sir Francis Young Husband.
The school was moved to the present grounds on eighteenth September 1912 with Prof.S.Robson as the Principal. The authors of the school were without a doubt men of incredible discernment and vision. The foundation arranged a hundred years prior, proceeds considerably to meet the consistently expanding needs of this establishment even at this point. The school inn that began working in July 1910, almost two years before the school was moved to the present grounds, bears an abundant declaration to the farsightedness of the founders.The Prince of Wales College was subsidiary to Punjab University, Lahore in May 1908. At first a flood of subjects in particular English, Mathematics, Chemistry, History, Persian, Sanskrit and Philosophy were instructed up to the Intermediate state. In January 1910, two all the more subjectsnamely Geology and Arabic were presented and bit by bit a large portion of the courses were moved up to graduation level. During this period, the school exceeded expectations scholastically and its foundation was among the best in the entire of northern India. It pulled in researchers and educators of notoriety and stature as its employees. In the thirties, postgraduate classes were begun in Geology , Economics and Mathematics. The doyen of Indian Geology Dr.D.N.Wadia set up the Department of Geology of the school. Its departmental exhibition hall, with its rich and uncommon gathering, keeps on being perhaps the best historical center of Geology in the entire of Northern India.
From 1931 onwards the school conceded both male and female understudies on its moves till 1944, when a different Maharani Mahila College was opened in the Present Luthra Academy at Kachi Chawni. In any case, in medicinal stream, female understudies kept on being on the moves till as late as 1966. In the ongoing years with the presentation of subjects like Electronics, Computer Applications, Functional English, BCA and Postgraduate course, the school has indeed begun conceding female understudies. The school kept on growing and in 1940 Sh.K.G.Sayaiden, the then Director of Education initiated a free Library square. Around a similar time, the Arts Block came up and thusly divisions of Bio-Sciences (1954) and Geography were likewise included.
Institute Type | Government College |
Name of the Institute | Government Gandhi Memorial Science College - GGMSC |
Affiliated | |
Approved By | NAAC |
Established | 1907 |
Address | Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir 180001 , India |
City | Jammu |
State | Jammu and Kashmir |
Pincode | 180001 |
Landline | 0191 2578189 |
Website | www.ggmsciencecollege.in |
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