Ramnarain Ruia College

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Ruia College, an educational institution in the central part of Mumbai, between the Dadar and Matunga railway stations. It comprises of The Ramnarain Ruia College of Arts & Science and Ramnivas Ruia Junior College of Arts and Science. The college has been awarded a Four Star rating by the NAAC.

The College was established in June 1937. It was the first college in Mumbai to be started by Shikshana Prasarak Mandali, Pune. It was inaugurated formally on 3rd December 1937 by the then Governor of Bombay, Sir Roger Lumley. A large part of the credit for its establishment goes to Mataji Suvratadevi Ruia and her son, Seth Ramnivas Ruia. Seth Ruia donated a sum of Rs. 2,00,000 (not adjusted for inflation) at that time, from the Ramnarain Harnandrai Charitable Trust. In recognition of this gesture, S.P. Mandali named the institution after him.

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[edit] Courses offered

  • B.Sc.
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
  • B.A.
  • M.Sc.
  • M.A.
  • Doctoral courses in Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Life Science and History
  • Diploma in Information Technology
  • Diploma in Bioinformatics
  • Diploma in Travel and Tourism
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Analytical Chemistry

[edit] Faculty

  • Principal - Dr. R T Sane
  • Vice-Principal - Mr. R V Gavankar
  • Vice-Principal - Dr. Behnaz Patel
  • Vice-Principal - Dr. Suhas V Pednekar
  • Vice-Principal (Junior College) - Ms. Lakshmi Iyer

Heads of Department
Languages

  • English - Ms. Lalita Paranjpe
  • French - Mr. M M Engineer
  • Hindi - Mr. Mukand Joshi
  • Marathi - Ms. Meena Gokhale
  • Sanskrit - Ms. Manjusha Gokhale

Arts

  • Philosophy - Ms. Rita Doctor
  • Political Science - Mr. Arun Kaisare
  • Psychology - ?
  • Commerce - Ms. Urmila Prasad
  • Economics - Ms. Pratibha Bhide
  • History - Ms. Varsha Shirgaonkar
  • Logic - ?
  • Sociology - ?

Science

  • Chemistry - Dr. K Raghuraman
  • Botany - Dr. Behnaz Patel
  • Life Sciences - Mr. S B Pandey
  • Microbiology - Mr. R P Phadke
  • Mathematics - Ms. Mangala Deshpande
  • Statistics - Ms. J P Atre
  • Physics - Mr. V M Bhatt
  • Zoology - Ms. Shailaja Phadnis
  • Computer Science - ?
  • Electronics - Mrs. S Vishwasrao

[edit] Distinctive Features

  • Innovative Programmes - With its varied experience and diligence, the Ruia faculty was in a position to innovate and experiment soon after the college started functioning. Considerable emphasis was placed on development of the instructional programme and evaluation procedures. Under several programmes, such as COSIP (College Science Improvement Programme) and COHSSIP (College Humanities and Social Science Improvement Programme), Ruia has successfully implemented several innovative and experimental academic programmes that won wide acclaim.
  • Students Mutual Aid Fund (SMAF) - This was started in 1948 with the intention of helping out those deserving students who required financial assistance. It now extends benefits to the economically disadvantaged students through lunch coupons,paying fees and issuing sets of books on loan. It arranges exhibitions and other programmes to augment its funds.
  • Ruia Alumni Association - It is past students' association. Ruia Alumni Association, with the guidance of several senior members of the faculty, has thrived in recent years.
  • Postgraduate Study and Research Centre - The only Centre of its kind to be established in a college in Mumbai, it provides comfortable accommodation, books, periodicals and bound copies of learned journals to postgraduate and research students. It is housed in the Ruia college library, which has a large collection of about 1,50,000 books, several of which are rare and not available elsewhere.
  • Reading Halls - The senior college library has a large reading hall which accommodates about 400 students and the reading hall in junior college building accommodates about 200 students. Special facilities to borrow books and exam papers are available in these reading halls.
  • Open Shelf Library - Important unit of the library for Graduate students, with about 30,000 books readily available to students. The sub-sections are well categorised and meticulously laid out, and book selection is such as to be of great use to students specialising in different subjects.
  • Vidyarthi Pratinidhi Mandal (VPM) - To enable students of the college to be in close touch with the teacher and members of the management, the VPM was constituted as a student body in the year 1969. It has been highly successful in encouraging in student participation in a variety of co-curricular activities.
  • The Ruiaite (college magazine) - Published annually since 1937, it has earned for itself a reputation far beyond the aspirations of most other college magazines. It has won several prestigious awards over the years.
  • Gymkhana - Fully equipped with badminton court, shooting range and highly sophisticated exercising equipment, made available for use by the students and faculty of the college.
  • Co-curricular Associations - Numbering about 20, these different associations enable students with varied interests to participate in intra- and inter-college activities and beyond, to tap their potential to the maximum.
  • Audio-Visual Centre - The college provides instructional material on audio and videocassetes to the students through the audio-visual centre and AV library.
  • Auditoriums - Ruia has an excellent audiotorium that can accommodate about 400 students. Another well-equipped 150-seat auditorium, with video projection facilities, has also been setup recently.
  • Information Technology Centre - Very well-equipped IT centre, with 60 computers for students and 9 specially for staff members, offers a variety of courses very useful to the students and faculty.
  • Electronics Laboratory - Very well-equipped electronics lab, with multiple power supplies and a den containing all the necessary components for the students, it is well-known throughout the state as one of the best electronic labs.
  • Marathi Medium Unit - This unit of the college was launched to tackle a problem faced by several students coming from state board and university students: inability to understand what they are taught in English (medium of instruction) as they have done their schooling in Marathi.
  • Cell for Visually-Challenged Units - The college has excellent facilities for the visually challenged students. Robotron to read for the students, computer to translate as well as give printouts of Braille into English and a computer to talk to these students are great assets.

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