Govt VYT PG Autonomous College, Durg

About Govt VYT PG Autonomous College, Durg

Government Vishwanath Yadav Tamaskar Post-Graduate Autonomous College, Durg is a leading higher education institution in Chhattisgarh. The college has been conferred with the status of autonomy by UGC in 1989. The college was accredited with grade ‘A +’ by NAAC in the third cycle, and has been recognized by UGC as ‘College with Potential for Excellence’ CPE, receiving the grant under IIIrd Phase of the scheme. Five departments from faculty of Science and one from Social Science have been identified by UGC under CPE scheme as highly rated departments. The institute has been shortlisted and recognized under DBT Star College Scheme by the Department of Biotechnology DBT Govt. of India. Under this scheme 6 departments from faculty of Science have been selected for providing financial support. The Department of Chemistry was recognized under Funds for improving Science and Technology Infrastructure FIST Scheme by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The college has the distinction of being one of the 20 prominent institutions across the country to have been selected for providing suggestions on National Higher Education Qualification Framework NHEQF of India.

The college offers UG and PG courses in Science, Arts and Commerce streams. Equipped with 21 teaching departments, including 16 PG departments, and 104 faculty members, it has 14 departments as recognized research centres, namely Hindi, English, History, Political Science, Sociology, Geography, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Mathematics, and Biotechnology department. Department of Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Botany, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Geology have research collaborations with national and international institutes of high repute. Many of the departments render paid as well as free consultancy services for sharing their knowledge resources for the benefit of institutions and society. The college houses study centres of IGNOU and Pt. Sundarlal Sharma Open University.

The college has a strong, committed and dedicated teaching faculty of 68 PhD holders and 5 M.Phil. holders. There are 46 non-teaching members and 38 daily wage employees. The teaching faculty is actively engaged in research work. A number of co-curricular and extracurricular activities are regularly organized throughout the year. This has also been acknowledged by NAAC peer team in their report.

The college had a humble start with just two rooms that housed Arts and Science faculty, at the local Hindi Bhawan. The foundation stone of the present building was laid by the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Dr. Kailash Nath Katju in November, 1958. It was shifted to its present site, campus of 21.75 acres, in 1962. Since then the college is continuously growing in terms of infrastructure and learning resources in its journey towards excellence.

At the time of independence, Durg was a backward district, with a diverse demographic composition, consisting mostly of OBC, SC and tribal populations. The district was backward in terms of educational, industrial and economic development. In the post-independence era, new avenues of development were opened with the beginning of industrialization in the region. An integrated steel plant, biggest of its kind in Asia, was founded with the support of erstwhile USSR. During the same period higher education was introduced in the region with inception of Govt. Arts and Science College, Durg in August 1958. Later on the college was renamed after late Shri Vishwanath Yadav Tamaskar, an eminent politician and freedom fighter from this region.

The college served as a major resource to provide man-power to Bhilai Steel Plant. This led to a breakthrough in socio-economic transformation of this region. Presently the college is one of the biggest Govt. Colleges in Chhattisgarh, a Lead College* of Durg district that provides administrative and academic support and guidance to 56 colleges of the district. The college has student strength of 4326 in the current session. It holds the unique opportunity of being a mixed bowl of urban, tribal and rural students, majority of them being first generation learners. The college, since its inception, is serving the society in a significant way by providing higher education to first generation learners. This is a distinctive feature of this institution.