SGTB Khalsa College

This article is about Sri Guru Tegh Bahadar Khalsa College, located in the North campus delhi. For Khalsa College in Karolbagh, Delhi, see Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College. For the historically important Khalsa College in Amritsar, Punjab, see Khalsa College, Amritsar.

Coordinates: 28°41′43″N 77°12′33″E / 28.69528°N 77.20917°E

Sri Guru Tegh Bahadar Khalsa College, Delhi
Motto

ਅਘਾਹਾ ਕੂ ਤ੍ਰਾਘਿ (Punjabi)

Aghaha Ku Traghi
Motto in English
 Look Forward
Established 1951
Type Coeducation
Principal Dr. Jaswinder Singh
Undergraduates ~4700
Location Delhi, India
Campus North Campus
Affiliations University of Delhi
Website sgtbkhalsadu.ac.in

Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. It is located on the North Campus of the University in New Delhi, India. The college offers courses oin Sciences, Commerce and Arts. The college premises also bears a Gurudwara.

History

The school is named after the 9th Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College is a constituent of University of Delhi. It was established in 1951as a co-educational institution by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee . The college began in four rooms in a school in Dev Nagar with 49 students and a faculty of 6. It moved to its present location in 1973.

Programmes

The college offers following courses :

Sports

The College has a spacious playing field for Hockey, Cricket, Football, etc., and facilities for indoor games like Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess and mini Gymnasium. A Sports Complex. the Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Sports Complex, has been built, consisting of an up-to-date gymnasium, with facilities of treadmill and weightlifting. A squash racket room, three table tennis rooms, and changing rooms for players are incorporated within this complex.

The college has recently constructed a new floodlit Lawn Tennis court (120X120) h. The Khalsa Tennis Academy has also been set up to utilize the infrastructure and nurture fresh talents, supervised under former Indian Davis Cup Player, Balram Singh. The college, along with Ramjas College and Shri Ram College of Commerce is one of the rugby training venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and hence the sporting facilities are under further upgradation. Students of the College has received invitation to participate in international competitions.

College societies

Academic societies

The college magazine The Tegh consists of English, Hindi and Punjabi sections.

Students' Union President is Abhinav Kaushik

Co-curricular / extracurricular societies

Dramatics society

Ankur - The Dramatics Society and Pratyaksh theatre-fest: Ankur which was revived in 1995 by Dr. Javed Malik I . Since its inception it has produced short plays, full-length productions and street plays. The team has won several awards including best play, best actor, best direction, etc. at many inter-college theatre competitions around the country. Actors at Ankur have been the recipient of Best Actors consecutively for over 7 years in a row. In '08-'09, Ankur produced Bade Bhai Sahab (Premchand), Muaavze (Bhishma Sahni), Jaayaz Hatyaare (adaptation of Albert Camus' Just Assassins) and Aaj Bhi Kal Ke Jaisa Kyun Hai? (street play) and won several accolades over the country for their work. Blog-id—ankurdramsoc.blogspot.com.

College principals

Academic work

The college has undertaken projects in the field of ciliate zoology and has reported new species of protozoans from northeast India. It collaborates with the Natural History Museum, London and yjr University of Camerino.

It offers a dual credential programs in collaboration with University of the Fraser Valley and Avans.

Notable alumni

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