About Us

The College commenced its journey from the academic year 2012-13 in a rented campus of the ND Desai Higher Secondary School, Vankal with just four faculties comprising two in the Department of Chemistry, one each in the Departments of Zoology and Botany. Later on it shifted to the campus of the Government Arts and Commerce College, Vankal (presently Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee Arts ad Commerce College) in the year 2016. It was in the year 2017 that the College moved to its own campus which is located on the right side of the Mangrol-Zankhvav Road (State Highway 166). Since then, it has ever flourished as an infrastructurally well developed and academically sophisticated institution for higher education in the Sciences. Nestled in the valley of Banbha Dungar (Banbha Hills), the College has a three storey building consisting of various departmental labs empowered with modern Laboratory equipment, classrooms equipped with ICT tools such as Smart Board, Projectors with Screen and an Auditorium capacious enough to serve a gathering of around a thousand people. The College has a hall dedicated to Administrative activities along with the Principal's Office, a Computer Lab, and a multidisciplinary Library boasting of latest volumes on different scientific disciplines.

To provide holistic development of mental and physical health of the students, the College also has a gymnasium for indoor exercises complemented by a large playground for outdoor sport activities. The College promotes variety of sports such as Sprinting, Athletics, Boxing, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Archery, and games like Cricket, Football, Badminton, Basketball, Hockey, Chess, and Carom etc. Despite being a science College, it provides ample space for the students to refine their artistic abilities through a well-structured open air performance arena.

At present, the College boasts of its academic excellence with highly capable and dedicated faculties well versed in their respective disciplines. All the faculties have gone through a rigorous procedure of selection and appointment by the Gujarat Public Service Commission and are well established in their respective area of expertise.

The College along with mainstream curriculum based studies provides the opportunities for the students to hone in their critical and creative skills through various co-curricular activities such as organizing Seminars, Conferences and Workshops on various topics of disciplinary as well as general importance. Various extra-curricular activities under the aegis of Saptadhara such as Model/Poster/Presentation, competitions of various kind like Painting, Rangoli, Traditional Dish Preparation, Mehadi, Thali Decoration. Celebrations like Annual Day, Science Day, International Indigenous People’s Day, and Plantation Program are part of an active and vibrant day to day work culture of the College. The students are well supported by different financial aides to go beyond the College campus and present themselves at National and International academic podiums. Regular tours to Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Pisciculture and Apiculture compounds, and Chemistry Labs in different parts of the country along with visits to the places of historic and cultural significance are organized by the College to provide the students exposure in various applied areas of scientific and cultural knowledge. Placement Fairs, Entrepreneurship Workshops are arranged annually to provide space for the students to be innovators and entrepreneurs in their coming future. To support its students in realizing their potential to the optimum, the College actively engages them in professional skill and personality development programmes such as Finishing School, Vocational Training Sessions under RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan), SCOPE (Society for Creation of Opportunities through Proficiency in English) Training Sessions for improvement of English language proficiency, Gujarat State Bio-Technology Mission (GSBTM) sponsored Under-Graduate Capacity Building Cell (UG-CBC) to prepare the students for state and national level competitive Examinations for the higher and advanced studies, and Entrepreneurship Capacity Building Cell (E-CBC) to provide the students exposure in the skills required for contributing and strengthening the Start-up Ecosystem of our country.

The collective effort of the different organs of the College has been well recognized by various Governmental Agencies and a package of Rs 3 million was provided to the College in the 3rd quarterly of the year 2020 by the SSIP Cell of the Government of Gujarat to invest in research and innovation. The establishment of Standard Club supported by BIS, Government of India, and Eco Club: The Rakshak, and Microbiology Society of India-Student Unit effectively displays the spread of curricular versatility that the College instills in its students. The diligence and academic brilliance of the students has produced rich dividends for the College as many students have qualified State as well as National and International level tests and examinations such TOEFL, CEPT, CSIR-NET, UGC-NET, GSET and have got enrolled in the prestigious universities and institutes of repute such as M. S. University of Vadodara, Gujarat University and IITE, Gandhinagar. Several of the students also have qualified GPSC and UPSC examinations in various administrative and academic departments. The Department of Zoology of the College has produced four Gold Medalists at the University level out of which three have come in a row.