Ness Wadia College of Commerce

Ness Wadia College of Commerce
Motto For the Spread of Light
Established 15 July 1969
Parent institution
Modern Education Society
Principal Dr. M. M. Andar
Location Pune, Maharashtra, India
Affiliations Pune University
Website nesswadiacollege.edu.in

Ness Wadia College is a college affiliated with the University of Pune, run by the Modern Education Society. This college was founded by Indian businessman Sir Ness Wadia.

Early History

Lokamanya Tilak and a few of his colleagues established the Deccan Education Society in Pune in 1884. It has been well represented on University Boards of Studies where its faculty members have been providing valuable inputs to the Board members. Within the institution, teachers are working on drafting syllabi for its own autonomous courses. The heads of departments meet to ensure that the syllabus is fully covered.

Background

Academics

The majors offered are as follows.

Senior College

Under Graduate Courses-

Post Graduation Courses-

Post Graduation Diploma Courses-

Ph.D. Courses-[1]

Autonomous Courses

Campus & Infrastructure

The college has 2 semninar halls, 2 three-storeyed buildings, a library, gymnasium, a sports ground, bank, post office, stationery shop, BSNL Internet & telephone care centre, canteen, students' hostel and common rooms for boys and girls.

Library

The college has a spacious library spread over 526 Sq. metres with a seating capacity of approximately 200. It is open from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm on working days and is also open on holidays. It has a collection of over 50,000 books and subscribes to over 100 journals/periodicals. It subscribes to 4 e-journals along with N-List and participates in resource sharing with INFLIBNET. It has 18 computers for public access with internet bandwidth of speed 2 MBPS being provided. The library uses SOUL 2.0 Library

Gymkhana & Sports

Indoor and outdoor games and sports facilities are available in the college campus. An orientation programme is conducted every year to make the students aware of the sports facilities available to them. The college appoints expert coaches for various sports events. In the field of sports, the students of the college have participated in sports activities organized at the inter-collegiate, inter-zonal, inter-university, state and national levels. Students have won various prizes, medals, shields and the General Championships many times. Many of the Students had got honor of being selected in various tournaments held in different parts of country at various levels. Since its establishment in 1969, the college has maintained an outstanding sports record. Recently the college ground has been renovated with ultra-modern equipments. All kinds of facilities are provided for the students – a state of the art gymnasium, and well-equipped grounds for many sports.

Computer Laboratory

The institution has an up-to-date computer facility for teaching, administration and library. There are 2 Computer Laboratories – Computer lab I consisting of 20 branded Compaq Pcs and Computer lab II consisting of 30 computers which are branded Pcs (Lenovo Think centre Desktops) and an IBM Server X3400M3. Each laboratory has a battery backup of 4 hours and both laboratories have LAN facility. Only Licensed software is provided in the computer laboratories.

WiFi & Internet Faciity

The WiFi facility is provided to faculty and students in the campus which is secured with Cuberom firewall with 10 access points and 2 Ruckus zone directors. 75 nodes are connected to this WiFi and 45 nodes are connected to BSNL Internet. This Internet facility is available free to all faculty on campus and to students on the campus on a nominal payment basis. The computers in the administration office have LAN connectivity within the offices of the principal and vice principal. The computers in the computer library and college library are LAN connected. All the computers in the college premises possess the licensed software.

Hostel

The college has three blocks of boys and girls hostels. Hostels are equipped with all modern amenities conveniences and comforts. The rooms are well ventilated and are suitably furnished. A new hostel is constructed with independent facility block containing separate mess and reading halls for boys and girls. The students staying in the hostel are provided subsidized mess facility. The hostel also provides guest room for parents/ relatives in case of emergency. Round the clock security is provided to both hostels and it is under CCTV surveillance.

Open air theater

The open air theater is a platform provided by the college to students who wish to explore their talents in extracurricular activities like dance, drama, poetry and other fields. This will help them to prepare for various competitions at intercollegiate level.

Placement and career guidance cell

Awards and rankings

Best college award & best principal award:

Alumni

References

  1. http://www.nesswadiacollege.edu.in/AP-PG-DiplomaCourses.html

External links

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