Post Graduate Government College Co-ed, Sector 11, (PGGC-11) is a constituent college of the

Panjab University Panjab University (PU) is a Collegiate university, collegiate public state university located in Chandigarh, Punjab. Funded through both Punjab, India, State and Government of India, Union governments, it is considered a state university (Indi ...

located in Sector 11,

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...

. It is as old as Chandigarh.

History

The college was started on May 26, 1953 from a building in Sector 10, at present the building houses the famous Hotel Mountview. Later it was shifted to the premises of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23. Finally, on October 13, 1960, the college was moved to its own building in Sector 11. The college building was originally designed by E Maxwell Fry, an English modernist architect.

Courses

PGGC-11 is affiliated with Panjab University and presently offers the following courses : * Bachelor of Arts * Bachelor of Commerce * Bachelor of Science * Bachelor of Physical Education * Bachelor of Computer Application * Bachelor of Business Administration

Notable alumni

Jimmy Sheirgill Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; 3 December 1970), also credited as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. Sheirgill began his film career with the 1996 thriller ''Maachis''. His bre ...

* Sanjay Tandon *

Pawan Kumar Bansal Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 16 July 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician, appointed interim treasurer in November 2020 and a former minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He represented Chandigarh constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha ...

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* Joginder Singh

References

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