PROF. DAMODAR DAS KHANNA ARTS FACULTY

 “An educated girl will stay healthy, save money, build a business, empower her community, lift her country and change the world.”
Education always plays an important role in the all-round development of human beings as well as the nation. It is a unique investment in the present as well as future. Every country develops its own system of education to express and promote its unique socio  cultural identity besides meeting the challenges of time to leverage the existing potential opportunities
            In response to the long-standing need for a girls' college in the locality where weaker section of the society resides Late S.N. Kakkar and Late Prof. D.D. Khanna laid the foundation of an exclusive girls' college i.e. S.S. Khanna Girls' Degree College, Allahabad in 1975, the International Women's Year, with a noble mission of imparting education and emancipating women. A constituent college of the Central University of Allahabad has gradually developed from a meager strength of 24 students in 1975 to1636 at present.  In the Arts Faculty for the undergraduate course the following subjects are available:
            1.         English Literature
            2.         Hindi Literature
            3.         Sanskrit Literature
            4.         Urdu Literature
            5.         Medieval History
            6.         Ancient History
            7.         Education
            8.         Sociology
            9.         Philosophy
            10.       Music Vocal
            11.       Music Instrumental (Tabla/Sitar)
            12.       Painting
            13.       Economics
(Under Self Financing Subjects) -
            14.       Office Management & Secretarial Practices
            15.       Geography
            16.       Psychology
            17.       Political Science
            The subject of Office Management and Secretarial Practices is available to the students as optional subjects in the Degree Course even though this subject is not available in the University of Allahabad.
            The College has an ideal academic atmosphere, free from all extraneous disturbances. It seeks to make the student composition as pleural, diverse and representative in character as possible to foster liberal access to higher education for human and

The activities of the college are designed to fall in line with its vision, mission and objectives of its founders.  The array of programmes and activities like Seminars, Workshops, Guest Faculty Lecture, Quiz, Documentary Film Presentation etc. are organized by different Cells and Parishads which serve to make our girl students intellectually alert, morally upright, religiously oriented, socially conscious, culturally distinct and nationally integrated.
            Education in this college empowers the girls to think clearly, to act well in the world's work and gives them the power to appreciate life and face challenges.

Dr. Meenu Agrawal