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Gargi College is a girls college and was established in the year 1967. The college is a leading south campus college of the University of Delhi. The college offers education in arts and humanities, Commerce, Science and Education.

History
Gargi College was named after an enlightened woman named Gargi, figuring in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada of the Vedic Age. She emerges as an intelligent and bold person embodying the spirit of inquiry juxtaposed with faith as is shown by her penetrating and challenging questions to the great sage Yajnavalkya. In the Upanishad Gargi seems to represent the intellectual potential of the race of Homo sapiens, which continues to manifest itself, in quest of ever-widening fields of knowledge.

Awards
Gargi College, one of the two colleges in Delhi to have been awarded the prestigious College with a Potential for Excellence grant, by the University Grants Commission in the year 2004-2005, was chosen because of its holistic approach towards teaching and its excellent track record in academic and other aspects of college functioning. Nine departments namely Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Elementary Education, Microbiology, Physics, Psychology, Zoology and the Women’s Development Centre are currently engaged in innovation and experimentation in the undergraduate programme, using modern methods of learning and evaluation. This award is in recognition of the endeavour of the college to engage in advanced research and socially purposeful projects over and above the regular college events.

Cultural Activities
Gargi College provides immense opportunities to students to develop and showcase their talents in various forms of arts. The legacy of the various cultural societies continues to be further enriched each year and students are now carrying out tasks of conceptualisation, design, direction and production by themselves with great finesse, apart from putting up superb performances at various inter college competitions and bringing laurels to the college. There are various societies which enable the students to have an exciting journey through art and culture. Below are the glimpse of the various activities undertaken by the societies. SPARX-The Choreography Society KSHITIJ-The Street Play Society HUES-The Fine Arts Society EUPHONY-The Western Music Society SAMRANJINI-The Indian Music Society NAZAAKAT-Indian Dance Society ENLIVEN-The Western Dance Society UPSTAGE-The Dramatics Society GLASS EYE-The Film Club IRIS-The Photography Society O.E.D-The English Debating Society SAMEEKSHA-The Hindi Debating Society QUIZZITO-The Quiz Society

Auditorium
The college boasts of having it's own state-of-the-art auditorium; the meridian of architectural finesse, with a seating capacity of 750 spread over the main floor and the mezzanine. The airy, spacious portico endowed with natural dayligfht and furnished with tables and chairs serves as a quiet place for conducting tutorial classes.

Library
Gargi has a fully computerised library. To help students reach the pinnacle of excellence in their particular field of study, we have a wide array of books in the library to help you choose from.The number of volumes in the main collection of the library is 60,469. A number of national and international journals and magazines are also subscribed to for reference. One can also indulge oneself with a wonderful section on good fiction. Books on general knowledge are in abundance in the library. A spacious and comfortable reference section with an ample seating arrangement is the joy of a student who would like to study, refer to, read or just flip through the cornucopia of literature. The library staff will be the guide and counsellor for all queries regarding books and the library facilities.

Alumni

 * Sonal Chauhan, Bollywood Actress
 * Hina Khan, Television Actress
 * Roshni Chopra, Television Actress