A HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH’S GIRLS DEGREE COLLEGE

In the beginning, in the year of 1848 the religious sisters from Jesus and Mary Congregation came from France. The sisters began the noble work of serving the poor children with few orphan children of the locality of Sardhana village. As it was the need of hour, the sisters began to take classes for the needy and poor children of the locality. God had been extremely pleased with them and they got the permission for High School for those girls in 1960. Many children who could not afford to go for English medium school were able to come to this school as it was government aided school. The sisters felt the need for school to go for intermediate course and God blessed their work with the permission of Inter College in 1965 a real God’s providence for the poor girls of locality. The number of students started increasing in our School. Our School St. Joseph’s Girls Inter College was the first School in Sardhana. As it was the need of Higher Education the Lord Jesus blessed us with Degree College in the year 1981. As the girls from the surrounding 22 villages could not go to Meerut daily for Higher Education due to the prevalent social customs such as safety of girls as well as financial problems, it was necessary to have a Degree College so that we could serve the higher education to the girls from nearby villages.

Under the inspiration and guidance of the Provincial Sister, Mary of Jesus, the good Lord Jesus made it possible to obtain permission for a degree college from the authorities of U.P. Government and Meerut University, Meerut.

Summary of St. Joseph’s girls degree College

St. Joseph’s Girls Degree College is established and governed by the Society of Jesus Mary Sisters. At present Sr. Rosily is the Provincial, Sr. Marina , the Chair person, Secretary Sr. Meena and Principal, Sr. Christina. The inauguration of the college took place on 15th August 1981. The Vice Chancellor , Registrar, Bishop Patrick Nair, Sister provincial, fathers, sisters and the newly admitted students were present for the ceremony. Sr. Magdalene Gonsalves, was the First Principal at that time. The college offered six subjects – Hindi, English,Sanskrit, History, political science and Home Science. Though College received permanent affiliation in 1984 but grant- in- aid was granted in later year. The staff members were six teachers., one clerk, three helpers. In the beginning years sister Vianney and sister Sebastian taught History and pol. Science. As the time passed by there was a felt need for B.Ed training College for the poor girls and other girls of our locality and neighbouring villages. . In 2005-2006 the B.A. section started three additional subjects under Self finance Scheme mainly drawing, Sociology and Economics. The college applied for permission to start B.Ed course from the authority of U.P. Government and CCS University Meerut. The application was sent to the university, the team came while the new building was ready. The team of inspection from N.C.T.E. Jaipur visited the college in 2005-2006. being satisfied the facilities, recognition was granted for one section w.e.f. 2007-2008 under self finance scheme. The university granted approval for the same. Today the college has around 700 students all together. The mission and vision of the college is to provide higher education to the young girls of the locality and neighbouring villages and mould them into good human beings and responsible citizens of our country.