About Us
The College
The college takes its name after Behan Satyawati (1907-1945), the immortal freedom fighter of Delhi, remembered for her dedication to various patriotic missions. Established in 1973, the college currently has over 2400 students. The college attracts a large number of students both boys and girls from various regions of our country. The college is committed to providing meaningful education which equips students to face the challenges of an increasingly competitive world. We further seek to sensitise students to diverse streams of thought through the courses of study in humanities, social sciences and commerce. New courses imparting vocational skills are offered by the college as and when they are made available by the University. Over the years, the college has earned its reputation as a centre of academic excellence. The college has established its reputation in various fields such as Sports, NCC, Dramatics and Debate. Ample opportunities are provided to students for cultivating creative self-expression and discovering latent talent through extra-curricular activities. A number of our college alumni have excelled in various fields of public life after graduating.
Behan Satyawati
Born on 26 January, 1907, Satyawati Vidyalankar was not merely a freedom fighter, but also a harbinger of new kinds of politics in her times. In a span of 38 years, (1907-45), she rose to prominence in India’s freedom struggle. She was christened as Toofani Behn by Mahatma Gandhi because of her ability for instant mobilization for a cause. For her, the workers were as critical to the nationalist campaign as the middle class, the mainstay in the then battle for freedom. While highlighting her contribution to the nationalist cause, one should also not miss the fact that it was she who always encouraged the women to take part in the struggle for freedom because she believed that they as well as their male counterparts had an equal responsibility in the freedom struggle. No wonder, Aruna Asaf Ali, rightly called her ‘the Indian Joan of Arc’.
The college takes its name after Behan Satyawati (1907-1945), the immortal freedom fighter of Delhi, remembered for her dedication to various patriotic missions. Established in 1973, the college currently has over 2400 students. The college attracts a large number of students both boys and girls from various regions of our country. The college is committed to providiaaaang meaningful education which equips students to face the challenges of an increasingly competitive world
Location
The college is located in the vicinity of a middle class residential colony in North-West Delhi. Though an off-campus college, it is located at a very short distance from the North Campus. An additional advantage of the college location is its link with Metro Rail. The college is about one km distance from the Metro Stations of Model Town and Kanhaiya Nagar. Being the only co-educational evening college in the area, it attracts a cross-section of students from various backgrounds.
Infrastructure
The college functions in spacious buildings surrounded by trees and delightful floriculture. The college has been making a concerted effort to enrich its infrastructure in order to meet the multifarious requirements of students. It has a lush green sports field for athletics and a well laid out cricket pitch. A well furnished new college canteen is operational.
The college has recently constructed an ultra modern centrally air-conditioned auditorium with a capacity of over 800 seats, a multi utility block and a computer laboratory with 80 computers fully equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity. Besides this, the college already has a Seminar Room, Sports Complex, Girls Common Room. A System and Network Administrator, manages the IT infrastructure of the college. The soul of the college, the Library, is well stocked with books, periodicals, journals and magazines. The Library is fully computerized with a spacious well-lit Reading Room, valuable reference books and popular periodicals. It adds to its stock, every year, a substantial number of books and subscribes to a variety of journals. The Punjab National Bank has its CBS branch within the college premises and it provides banking services to the staff and students of the college. The college has full power back-up through two generators of 250 and 160 KV. The college provides photostat facility inside the campus to ensure quality service at reasonable charges. The college also provides parking facility for two wheelers. The medical well being of our students and staff is taken care of by the regular availability of a lady doctor in the college on all working days.
Advantages of studying in an evening college
The working hours of the college beginning from 2.00 p.m. offer an advantageous schedule to the students. Over the years, our students in the evening college have successfully combined vocational pursuits and other skill developing activities in the first half of the day with undergraduate study in the second half. Well utilized time ensures maximum benefits for our students who aim to develop themselves for a complex, competitive world. The college promotes a stimulating environment for all round development to enable students to evolve as well balanced, socially sensitized human beings.
The college follows a six-day teaching schedule per week. The college library remains open from 1.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., with comfortable set up for self-study and reference reading in a spacious reading hall.