Audio of Shrimathi Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College for Women

 

Shrimathi Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College for Women was established in 1968 with the generous donation of 10 acres of land by our late Founder Chairman Shri Nanalal Bhatt and a donation of ₹6 lakhs by Cork Industries Charities Trust. The college is named after the late Founder Chairman’s wife, Smt. Devkunvar. This college was the first women’s college in the then Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu. The Chairperson, Smt. Mamta D. Bhatt, is a dynamic and energetic leader with innovative ideas and the potential to execute them precisely. The College Secretary, Shri Chandrakant M. Tolia, is a meticulous planner with a panoramic vision for the development of education, especially for first-generation women learners. The College Joint Secretary, Shri Nimish C. Tolia, with his visionary leadership, provides stewardship to the institution to meet the globally changing scenario in education.

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The college has been affiliated with the University of Madras since its inception in 1968 and is accredited by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) with an A+ Grade. It is also listed in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The autonomous status of our college was conferred in 2006 and approved by the University of Madras and the University Grants Commission (UGC), which is a statutory organisational of the Government of India established by an Act of Parliament in 1956 for the coordination, determination, and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination, and research in university education.

Our college currently has a student strength of 7,019, with 30% in the Aided stream and 70% in the Self-support stream, supported by 337 faculty members. We offer 10 undergraduate programs in the Aided stream, and 20 undergraduate, 16 postgraduate, and 5 M.Phil. programs in the Self-support stream. All the programmes offered by our college are affiliated with the University of Madras.

Nine departments in our college are recognized as Research Departments. The Department of Economics offers a part-time Ph.D. program. Our college places strong emphasis on research, and the management actively supports it by providing seed money to both staff and students for conducting research in various fields. More than 50 funded research projects—supported by both UGC and management funds—have been carried out, yielding research findings with significant societal impact. Each year, over 100 quality research papers are published in various national and international journals of repute, many of which are indexed in the UGC CARE list, Web of Science, or Scopus.

Sparkles – a half-yearly research explorer journal with an ISBN – is an initiative by our college to encourage students of all levels to write research papers under the guidance of faculty members. Our college takes pride in publishing two international multidisciplinary e-journals: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Arts, Science and Commerce (IJMRASC) and International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research and Development (SIJTRD), both with ISSN. These journals promote innovative research, reviews of existing literature, comparative research on different approaches to a problem and its interpretation, problem-solving research, as well as community-based and socially relevant research.

The college has witnessed impressive multi-directional growth in diverse areas, providing women students with opportunities to explore and deepen their academic interests and engage effectively in extension activities.