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Other name | DCJ |
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Parent institution | Arya Shiksha Mandal |
| Chairman | Chander Mohan |
| President | Chander Mohan[1] |
| Principal | Pardeep Bhandari |
| Location | Jalandhar, Punjab, India 31°20′33″N75°35′09″E / 31.3424°N 75.5857°E /31.3424; 75.5857 |
| Campus | 21 acres (8.5 ha) |
| Website | doabacollege |
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Doaba College, Jalandhar is a multi-faculty postgraduate co-educational institution ofNorthern India which serves theDoaba region. The college has been accredited by theNational Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous body of theUniversity Grants Commission of India (UGC).
Doaba College,Jalandhar was established on 1 January 1941 by Sh. Bindraban Sondhi, Rai Bahadur Badri Dass, Sh. Jagan Nath Mittal and Acharaya Lajja Vati. They followedArya Samaj and the Spartan Freedom Fighters who laid the foundation of Doaba College to promote the study ofclassical Sanskrit,Hindi and the teachings ofVedic Dharma,Gandhian values and to promote the philosophy ofMaharishi Dayanand Saraswati. Mehta Jaiminee Jee of Arya Samaj laid the foundation of Doaba college in 1897 and converted the Doaba school into the Doaba College, however because of financial reasons, it did not continue after unknown period. Mehta Jaiminee Jee was the first principal.
Their mission was to impart education to the less privileged and economically weaker section of students of this area. A small building was constructed in 1941 and thereafter the expansion of the college was undertaken in 1943. Sh. Bindraban Sondhi collected funds for the college. Ever since, the institution has been under the leadership of earlier Rai Bahadur Badri Das, Seth Stya Paul, and now Sh.Chander Mohan.[1][2][3]
Chief-Editor, Daily Vir Pratap and the President of Arya Shiksha Mandal. The college provides courses in Computer Education & I.T. Biotechnology, Commerce & Management, Journalism & Mass Communication, Tourism and Hotel Management in addition to traditional courses in the faculties of Science, Commerce and the Arts.
This college has a Commerce and Business Management block, Media and I.T. block, Audio-Video Media Studio, an English Language Lab, Arts block, postgraduate block, laboratories (Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food technology labs).
