A Brief History
The Dayanand Anglo Vedic College Trust & Management Society was set up 203 years ago in 1885 under the Societies Regulation Act, 1860 and it is now the premier non-government educational organisation covering a wide spectrum of educational activity in the country and abroad. The society is running more then 700 educational institutions which include 50 Graduate, Post-graduate and Professional Colleges, 500 public schools, 100 secondary schools besides Vocational, Engineering and Technical Institutions.
The DAV Group of Schools and Colleges have become a byword for value-based education in the entire country and abroad. These institutions represent efficiency, discipline, selfless service, patriotism and high standards of attainments in the academic and related fields, imparting respect and attachment for vedic thought and traditions.Students coming out of these institutions are proud and possessive of their alumni and their success in varied fields is a source of satifaction and inspration. Great men, Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Nobel laureate, Dr. Hargobind Khurana, Shri Sushil Kr Shinda, formore Chief Ministerof Maharashtra, Late Shri Sunil Dutt (Sports Minister of India), Shri Balram Jakkhar (Former Union Agriculture Minster, Shri H.K.L. Bhagat ,formor Union Minister, Cricket doyens- Kapil Dev and Mohinder Amarnath are amongst the galaxy of DAV stalwarts. Millions of student have passed out of DAV institutions and many of them have made a mark for themselves in national and international fields. There is hardly a place of importance in the world where the alumni of DAV School and Colleges are not found. The team DAV has come to signify such qualities as clean and selfless services, nobel purpose in life, excellence in teaching and Co-curricular activities and cosmopolitan outlook.
Deeply impressed by the excellent functioning of DAV public School, a number of undertakings in private and public sectors have entrusted the task of establishing and managing public schools for the benefit of the wards of their employees to the DAV College, Trust and Management Society. The Society has since setup more then fifth such schools in collaboration with Anpara Thermal Project, The Associated Cement Companies, Bhakra Beas Management Board, Bharat Cooking Coal Ltd., Central Coalfields Ltd., Mishra Dhata Nigam Ltd., Reliance Industries Ltd.