Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women commonly known as SPM College, is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. The all-women's college was founded in 1969 and named after Syama Prasad Mukherjee.
At present, the college offers 19 programs including three professional courses and running nine Certificate Courses.[1] The college offers Teachers Training Programmes - B.Ed & B.El.Ed - and is among the few colleges of University of Delhi to offer the course outside the Central Institute of Education (CIE), University of Delhi.[2] The college is a part of North Campus cluster but is located off campus.
Campus
SPM College is located in Punjabi Bagh (West), New Delhi. The college is well connected by the Shivaji Park Metro Station on the Green Line and Punjabi Bagh West Metro station on the Pink Line of the Delhi metro network. Special provisions for differently-abled students and staff members such as ramps, wheel chairs, washrooms, and special pavements are, in place within the college premises. Braille plates with QR codes are also displayed outside every room.[3]
The college maintains a double storey library in a separate wing for the college students. It is a fully digitalized library with a collection of 87,000 books, 22 journals, 11 newspapers, and reading halls.[1]
A branch of Indian Overseas Bank operates in the college.[4]
The labs, seminar hall, and classrooms are equipped with projectors.[5]
Governing Body
According to the provisions of statute 30(1)(c)(i) of Delhi University Act, 1922, the governing body is chosen through public nomination of people from various academic and non-academic backgrounds. There are designated committees, and their management is supervised by the principal. The affairs of the college are jointly managed by the governing body, the academic council, and the executive council of the University of Delhi.[6]
The present Principal (Acting) of the college is Sadhna Sharma[7]
Certificate Course in Counselling and Psychotherapy[13]
Textile designing including Tie and Dye; Batik, fabric Painting
Cutting and Tailoring
Embroidery
Dress Designing & Drafting
Beauty culture
Secretarial Practice Course (Stenography English)
Admission
The student demography of SPM is heterogeneous. Admission to the college is undertaken through centralized University admission every year from June to July. Reservations are followed as per government norms in the admission process.[14]
Placement
The college has an active placement cell which conducts various career-related seminars.[15]
Centre
Under the EPOCH making Social Thinkers of India programme by the University Grants Commission (UGC),[16] Shyama Prasad Mukherji College has a Gandhi Study Centre, Buddhist Study Centre and Guru Nanak Study Centre - that offer certificate courses.[17][18]
Besides full-time courses, the college also runs study centres for the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board and the School of Open Learning.[19][20]
Student life
The college conducts activities such as sports, NSS, NCC, and other ECAs.[21][22][23] These societies are active throughout the year and organize competitions, seminars, conferences and workshops at the college and inter-college levels.[24]
