Shanti Devi Arya Mahila College was established at Dinanagar in 1965 under the aegis of Swami Dayanand Saraswati ji in order to impart quality education to women. The sole aim of institution was to harness the pernicious human resource, the women for the welfare of the society. College has been accredited by NAAC with B++ grade with highest score in Distt. Gurdaspur with more than 80% points.
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On 29th June, 1944, Baring Union Christian College came into existence when the District and sessions Judges of Gurdaspur, Mr. S.Burke, ICS, cut the ribbon at the Anarkali and the first boys and girls enrolled in the college filled the main building, which once had housed exclusively the sons of the upper class Christian families of the Punjab. There were at the time of its inception in 1944 about 75 students predominantly from Hindu, Muslim and Sikh background.
Sikh National College, one of the oldest and historical educational institutions of the region, was established in June 1938 at Lahore, with S. Niranjan Singh as its founder principal. It was the first college in the whole country, whose building fluttered the Tricolour (Tringa) as a symbol of National character. It was the dream of the people of the time to build an idealistic institute committed to National ideals that would mould the character of students into non-communal brotherhood.