Janta Vedic College, also known as 'Jat College', is a college in

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in the

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. It is situated on the link road in

. The college is managed by Jat Shiksha Sabha, a registered society established in 1920. It is affiliated to

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College history

The college was first established as a high school on 20 October 1917. In 1949 it became an undergraduate college and, in 1956, a graduate college. the school offers education in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, as well as the

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and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

Campus

It has a campus on near a tributary of the

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canal. Janta Vedic College is situated in

town of District

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. It is on the

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four-lane state highway about from

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. The college premises are spread over more than 40 acres of land. The three entry gates are named in memory of three famous 'Jat' alumni: Captain Ghasi Ram, Baba Shah Mal and

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Infrastructure

There are four faculties in the college: Visual Arts, Agriculture, Science and Physical Education. The college has 17 P.G. and 12 U.G. departments with a study centre of

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. There is a huge central library. It has an open book section with a reading room and retro-graphic facilities. There are two boys' and one girls' hostel. Staff residences are available to accommodate 16 staff members. The college has adequate sports facilities with a gymnasium and large playing grounds. An indoor stadium is under construction. There is an independent Dairy Farm which hosts about half-a-dozen milk cattle — buffaloes and cows. There is a Yagyashala where the reciting of Vedic

Mantra A mantra (Pali: ''manta'') or mantram (मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages believed by practitioners to have religious, ma ...

s is performed.

Faculties

* Faculty of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

* Faculty of

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

* Faculty of

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

* Faculty of

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

* Faculty of Vocational Programmes * Faculty of ommerce

Courses

This college has 29 departments for every subject. Overall this college provides 10 courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Currently this college provides P.G. level education to 514 students every year.

Notable alumni

*Dr Satya Pal Singh Mamber Lok Sabha,chancellor of Gurukul Kangdi University Haridwar, former Commissioner of police Mumbai and Former Minister of State HRD, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. * Prof Ved Prkash Former Chairman UGC * Swami Omvesh, MLA

References

External links

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