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D.A.V.
College Trust and Management Society, New Delhi
and
Institutions At Solapur
The D.A.V. College
Trust and Management Society was established on 31st
January 1886. It is now the oldest & biggest non-governmental
educational organisation in India. It covers broadly the entire
spectrum of educational activity in the country. The society developed
a chain of institutions from Jammu and Kashmir in the North to
Tamilnadu in the South, from Rajasthan in
the West to Manipur in the East, with a view to meet the demand for
enlightening and progressive education based on the requirements of
contemporary times with emphasis on values of life. It includes over
750
public and aided schools, colleges in the faculties of Arts, Science,
Commerce, Education, Law, Technical, Ayurvedic,
Medicine, Pharmacy & Management. It has
completed one hundred and fourteen years of its academic service.
Apart from providing the traditional value education, it has also
contributed to the society through the establishment of Maternity
Hospital at Ambala, a Rural Development
Training Ashram in Manipur, the Lalchand
Library and a Research Department in Hoshiyarpur.
The Management
established Dayanand College of Arts and Science in Solapur in 1940 to
celebrate the victory of Satyagraha launched by
Arya Samaj against the atrocities
committed by then the ruler of Hyderabad. Since then the Managing
Committee has gone on continuously expanding its educational
activities for the welfare of the people of Solapur and the
surrounding areas. On 17th June 1940 Dayanand College of Arts and
Science was established under the stewardship of Prin. G.L.
Datta. The city of Solapur and the
surrounding areas needed such a facility.
Dayanand
Institutions have been doing excellent work in serving the cause of
education not only for Solapur District but also for the surrounding
areas.
Dayanand Institutions
at Solapur
1)
Damani Bhairuratan
Fatehchand Dayanand college of Arts &
Science, Solapur (1940)
2) D.A.V.
Velankar college of commerce, Solapur
(1952)
3)
Damani Premratan
Bhairuratan Dayanand College of
Education, Solapur (1955)
4)
Damani Gopabai
Bhairuratan Dayanand Law College, Solapur
(1964)
5)
Rambhau Joshi High school,
Karkamb, Tal.
Pandharpur, Dist: Solapur (1954)
6)
Dayanand
Kashinath Asawa
High school, Solapur (1959)
7)
Dayanand
Model School, Solapur (1981)
Dayanand Institutions
are spread over an area of 63 acres of land with impressive and
magnificent buildings for classrooms, spacious and well-equipped
laboratories and libraries as also vast playgrounds with a pavilion to
seat more than 3000 students.
The
college was established in the year 1940 after the marathon Satyagraha
by Arya Samaj
in 1939 against the social and political oppression by the then rulers
of Hyderabad. The College is well-established with a Library, Class
rooms, Gardens, Hostels (Hostel
for Men with a facility for 350 boarders and a Hostel for Women with a
facility for 60 boarders),
an Open-Air-Theatre, a Playground,
a Free
Dispensary, a Post-Office and a Bank
etc.,
spread
over 63 acres of “Dayanand Nagar”.

DAV Network of Educational
Institutions
Today DAV organization
runs more than 750 institutions., imparting
quality education to more than six lakhs
students. These include: -
i) 57
arts, science and professional colleges.
ii) 6 colleges of
education.
iii) 470 public schools.
iv) Govt. – aided schools.
v) Chain of technical
institutions including institution of Management and
Vocational studies.
vi) An
Ayurvedic college and DAV Pharmacy.
vii) Two Dental colleges
and a modern Maternity and General Hospital.
viii) Law college (Solapur)
ix) DAV Institute of
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Jalandhar.
x) Taken Ram
Thakur Devi
DAV Institute of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation,
YamunaNagar.
xi) Dayanand
Brahm Mahavidyalaya
imparts the teachings from Vedas and
Upanishads and prepares
intakes for priesthood.
xii) DAV institutes Moral
Education, Mandir
Marg, New Delhi at Tankara (Gujrat)
imparts
training to Dharma – Shikshaks.
Research Institutions :
i) Vishveshvaranand
Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiyarpur, the
largest Sanskrit and
Vedic Research
Institute in the world.
ii)
Lal Chand Library and Research
Department, Hoshiyarpur shifted to DAV
college,
Chandigarh.
iii) Research centre on
Vedic Studies and Indology, Hans
Raj college
campus, Delhi.
Highlights
More than a dozen of Army officers of
different ranks having DAV background sacrificed their lives for the
country during the Kargil war. DAV
organizations donated Rs. One
crore and eleven lacs
to the Prime Minister’s Defense Fund at the time of
Kargil War. Solapur unit of the DAV
Institutions, contributed
Rs. Two
lacs, fifty-six thousand five hundred during the
Kargil war.
DAV organization has extended a
helping hand to the earthquake-stricken people of
Gujrat. It has raised a fund of Rs.
One crore for the earthquake victims and
adopted twenty-five villages in earthquake – affected areas. The
Solapur unit of the DAV Institutions contributed
Rs. Three lacs to the Gujarat
Relief Fund.
DAV and Arya
Pradeshik Pratinidhi
Sabha have fulfilled the promise of
feeding for a year 300 cyclone-devastated families of super cyclone
affected areas of Orissa. It is also running two Vedic Bal Ashrams for
orphans (one for boys and other for girls) who have lost their parents
in this tragedy. DAV unit Solapur contributed
Rs. Eighty-six thousand six hundred eighty towards
Orissa Cyclone Fund.
Solapur Arya
Bal Sadan was also run by DAV Managing
Committee for orphans who lost their parents in
Killari earthquake (Maharashtra). DAV institute, Solapur
have donated Rs. Three
lacs eleven thousand eight hundred
sixty-two towards Chief Minister’s Fund for earthquake in Maharashtra.
DAV public school at
Dabwali had a fire disaster
when a school children pendal caught fire
in January 1996. DAV Solapur unit contributed
Rs. One lacs
for the welfare of affected
children.
Aims and
Objectives of DAV Institutions
a) To encourage,
improve and enforce the study of Hindu literature.
b) To encourage and
enforce the study of Classical Sanskrit of the Vedas.
c) To encourage and
enforce the study of English literature & sciences both
theoretical
and applied.
d) To provide a
means for giving technical education.
List of the
Institutions in the Maharashtra State
1. D. B.F. Dayanand
College of Arts and Science, Solapur
2. D. A. V. College
of Commerce, Solapur
3. Dayanand College
of Education, Solapur.
4. D. G. B. Dayanand
Law College, Solapur.
5. Dayanand
Kashinath
Asawa High school, Solapur.
6.
Rambhau Joshi High school,
Karkamb, Solapur.
7. Dayanand Model
School, Solapur.
8. D. A. V. Public
School, Airoli, Navi
Mumbai.
9. D. A. V. Public
School New Panvel,
Navi Mumbai.
10. D. A. V.
Public School Nerul,
Navi Mumbai.
11. S. H.
Ambani Highschool
Lodhiwali, Mumbai
Tehsil Khalapur District
Raigad.
12. DRB D. A. V. Public
School, Ballam, No.3, Thane (W)
13. D. A. V.
Ambuja Vidyaniketan,
Gadchandur Dist.
Chandrapur.
14. D. A. V.
Public School (WCL) Neeljay colliery
Township P.O. Pummat Dist.
Yawatmal.
15. Dayanand
Institute of Education Management and Research C/o. D. A. V.
Public
School Campus, Sector 10 New
Panvel ,
Navi Mumbai.
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