SGTB Khalsa College

This article is about Sri Guru Tegh Bahadar Khalsa College, located in the North campus of the University of Delhi. For Khalsa College in Karolbagh, Delhi, see Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College. For the one in Amritsar, see Khalsa College, Amritsar.

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

Sri Guru Tegh Bahadar Khalsa College, Delhi
Motto

ਅਘਾਹਾ ਕੂ ਤ੍ਰਾਘਿ (Punjabi)

Aghaha Ku Traghi
Motto in English
 Look Forward
Type Coeducation
Established 1951
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. Established in 1951, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutes for Commerce and Economics in India and regularly features in the top commerce college rankings with B.Com(Hons) and Eco(Hons) being the most sought after courses. Last year's college cutoff touched 97.5% for these courses. It is located on the North campus of the university, in New Delhi, India. The college offers courses in sciences, commerce and the arts. The college premises has a gurudwara. Students and alumni of the college are termed as Khalsaites.

History

Khalsa College is a constituent of the University of Delhi. It was established in 1951 as 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. The college is named after the 9th Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Programmes

The college offers the following courses:

Sports

The college has a spacious playing field for hockey, cricket, and football, and facilities for indoor games like table tennis, carrom, and chess, as well as a mini gymnasium. The Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Sports Complex consists of a gymnasium. A squash racket room, three table tennis rooms, and changing rooms for players are also in this complex. The college has a floodlit lawn tennis court. The Khalsa Tennis Academy has 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, was one of the rugby training venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

College societies

Academic societies

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

Co-curricular / extracurricular societies

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 University of Camerino.

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

Notable alumni

References

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