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Christian Dental College

Origin and Inception

The journey officially started with the ground breaking ceremony on November 24th 1990, by Mrs. Glenn Crawford, Mrs. Maud Charles and Rev. Charles Reynolds. The Original concept of a dental college as part of CMC Ludhiana Society was initiated by Dr. Samraj, Ex-Deputy Director of CMC Vellore and Dr. J L Joshi, Ex- Head of the department of dental surgery. This proposal was gladly accepted and supported by the then Director of CMC Ludhiana Dr. Victor Chaudhary. The momentum for this project was in the form of the ASHA grant by the American government for which the CMC LUDHIANA BOARD USA, under the leadership of late Rev. Charles Reynolds played a key role. With this funding, dental chairs and other equipments were shipped from Oral Roberts University, USA. With the rest of the funds other essential equipments were procured and renovation of the abandoned basic science building carried out. Finally, after a long legal battle with Punjab University with regard to the rights of minority institution, CHRISTIAN DENTAL COLLEGE officially started functioning from 31st July 1992.