College Information
D.A.V. College Chandigarh was founded in 1958 when the city of Chandigarh was in its infancy. The college has grown with the city, becoming an integral part of the region's socio-cultural milieu. The college belongs to the family of the famous D.A.V. institutions, founded by Mahatma Hans Raj, and inspired by the great visionary-Swami Dayanand Saraswati-the doyen of the Arya Samaj, who believed that "True education consists in promoting knowledge, civilized manners, virtuous character, self-control, and other moral qualities and in dispelling ignorance". He had always felt that the scientific knowledge of the west needs to be absorbed in the cultural milieu of India. The DAV movement, which started in 1886, gives a practical shape to the ideals of Swami Dayanand's educational philosophy which aims to develop a modern scientific approach among the students, coupled with an understanding of their roots in the ancient Vedic Culture. The D.A.V College, Chandigarh is trying to bring about this synthesis by imparting to the students the best of new world humanistic, scientific, and technical knowledge with the sense of the history of their rich cultural heritage-the Anglo and Vedic values. We work to achieve these broad objectives.
