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.
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