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Indraprastha College for Women (estd. 1924) is a constituent college of the University of Delhi and its oldest women’s college. Founded as a part of a nation-wide campaign for women's education and empowerment, it is located on a beautiful campus which is a recognized heritage site and a landmark of Delhi. It has an enrolment of approximately 3500 students in its UG and PG programs. The College offers a wide range of courses, which promotes interdisciplinary studies in the 3 streams of Humanities, Mathematical Sciences and Commerce. It was accredited with Grade 'A' and has an active Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC).
The College Student Services include a vigorous Diversity Integration Program. It follows a Need Blind Admission Policy. The College is 100% barrier free and has a “Under One Roof” Enabling Unit (EU) and Equal Opportunity Cell (EOC). Apart from a proactive financial aid policy, it orga----
About College
Indraprastha College for Women (estd. 1924) is a constituent college of the University of Delhi and its oldest women’s college. Founded as a part of a nation-wide campaign for women's education and empowerment, it is located on a beautiful campus which is a recognized heritage site and a landmark of Delhi. It has an enrolment of approximately 3500 students in its UG and PG programs. The College offers a wide range of courses, which promotes interdisciplinary studies in the 3 streams of Humanities, Mathematical Sciences and Commerce. It was accredited with Grade 'A' and has an active Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC).
The College Student Services include a vigorous Diversity Integration Program. It follows a Need Blind Admission Policy. The College is 100% barrier free and has a “Under One Roof” Enabling Unit (EU) and Equal Opportunity Cell (EOC). Apart from a proactive financial aid policy, it organizes courses in English and ICT skills for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), and skill training courses for Persons with Disability (PwD). The College also publishes its Annual Report and Prospectus in Hindi and its Website in Hindi is active at hindi.ipcollege.ac.in. For advanced learners, the College has a Research Methodology Program, and has instituted an Under-graduate Research Grant for innovative and original projects. It has an International Student Desk, North East Society and an active Womens Development Cell with a Gender Sensitization Program. It offers basic medical facilities with regular attendance of a Nurse and a Counsellor, with access to the neighbourhood hospital for medical emergencies. The College has a mentorship program and a Career Guidance and Placement Cell.
The College has created Seven Research and Learning Resource Centres. The Museum and Archives Learning Resource Centre houses heritage and contemporary exhibits of the College. The Translation and Translation Studies Centre for independent research and skill development in languages. The Centre for Earth Studies promotes research in ecology and environment, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies brings all the disciplines of the College together. It has added the Centre for Sanskrit Studies and Research and the Music Archives & Listening Room (Baithak) in 2017. The Yoga and Well-being Centre was added in 2019.
The College has two hostels to accommodate 450 students, the 170 seater Indraprastha College Girls Hostel and the Kalavati Gupta Hostel (KG) which has total number of 280 seats. The IP Hostel also has the option of A.C rooms.
The well-stocked Library has a book bank, an elevator for disability access and houses the ICT centre with 80 computers. The College has its own studio and production centre, a multimedia lab and editing bays, a hub for Community Radio with world-wide broadcast facilities through DUCR, an Audio-Visual Resource Centre, Seminar rooms, state-of-the-art Conference rooms, a fully air-conditioned Auditorium with 586 seating capacity, four Exhibition Foyers, well-equipped laboratories and other infrastructure to support its academic and co-curricular activities.
It has vast playgrounds and Multi-Facility Sports Infrastructure with a Swimming Pool, Climbing Wall, Walking Track, Gymnasium, Shooting Range, Fitness Centre and a sprawling sports complex. A wide range of extra-curricular activities are encouraged. The College has its own 26 seater bus. To support its formidable infrastructure and facilities, the College has full power back-up to ensure that all activities are carried out without interruption.
Environment Consciousness is a core agenda of the College and its heritage campus serves as a laboratory for both observation and practices. The College has a dense green cover and its biodiversity is phenomenal. Students activities are organized around tree census, bird census, butterfly count and a vigorous Waste Management Program. The College uses leaves to make compost, food waste to make manure and recycles paper waste. Electronic and plastic waste is disposed for recycling in collaboration with expert bodies. There are seven water harvesting pits on the campus. The College grows organic vegetables.
The College encourages an Animal-Friendly campus. There are dogs, cats, peacocks, kites, varieties of migratory birds and rescued birds and animals on the campus. They are looked after by the College community.
Vision & Mission
Established in 1924, in the movement of nationalist philanthropists for women’s education in Delhi, housed in a heritage building, marching towards its centenary, the College is proudly aware of its glorious history and tradition. The institution is the oldest women’s college of the University of Delhi. The Vision of the College is to educate, enable and empower young women, emphasizing the need to mainstream the marginalized and weaker sections among them to ensure justice and equity in society. The Mission is to steer the education it offers not only to lead to the pragmatic goal of employability, but also to build a life of the mind and sensitize and orient its students to the service of the community, in the quest for a better life for society and the world that we inhabit.
The College endeavors to nurture confident and responsible citizens who will uphold the values enshrined in the motto of the College “Truth, Love, Knowledge, Service”. To this end, the College’s mission statement is set out as definite tasks which define the College’s distinctive characteristics in terms of addressing, the students it seeks to serve, the institution's traditions and value orientations, the needs of society and its course for the future. The Mission is dynamic and its tasks are defined and periodically reviewed to meet the challenges and opportunities of changing times. The Objectives of the College are stated in the tasks of the Mission.
The College seeks to inculcate through its programs:
Belief in self as a women (through enabling strategies and empowerment interventions).
Awareness of history, heritage and environment (through the College’s history and legacy as well as its own location as a habitat island, which is further linked with global concerns and issues).
Respect and sensitivity for others (by exposure to cultural diversity, languages and human rights, both as a nation and in the global context).
Values of citizenship (by inculcating civic sense, public conduct, leadership, rights and responsibilities and allegiance to the Constitution and its values).
Development of scientific and rational thinking (through encouragement of research and analysis of empirical experience).
Development of presentation and writing skills (through incentives for research and innovation).
Enhancement of employability and life-skills (by organizing hands-on training and workshops).
Holistic development and a strong sense of ethical conduct, through curricular and co-curricular activities (with mandatory membership and participation in a minimum of two co-curricular activities).
