Govt Gandhi Memorial Science College, Jammu

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Gandhi Memorial Science College, Jammu, past Prince of Wales College, is a combination of ancient history and contemporaneity: An establishment that has its underlying foundations in the chronicles of history and has advanced and developed from that point onward, to be safeguarded as a piece of our instructive and social legacy.
The school with its emanation of history and legacy goes back to 1905, when His Highness, Maharaja Sir Pratap Singh declared the kickoff of the school as Prince of Wales College.
This was to honor the visit of His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales, the future King George V Maharaja Pratap Singh, a big-hearted ruler and an extraordinary visionary of his occasions, in this way, made the main organization of higher learning in the whole Jammu locale.
Ruler of Wales College really began working from twentieth April 1907 in the then Ajaibghar.
It had 26 understudies on its roll and Prof.R N Mukherjee directed as the Principal of the College.
The establishment stone of the current school grounds was laid in July 1904, in the midst of a huge lavish green territory of around 65 sections of land, by the then Resident of Kashmir, Sir Francis Young Husband.
The school was moved to the current grounds on eighteenth September 1912 with Prof.S Robson as the Principal.
The organizers of the school were without a doubt men of extraordinary intuition and vision.
The foundation arranged a hundred years prior, proceeds considerably to meet the regularly expanding necessities of this establishment even at this point.
The school lodging that began working in July 1910, almost two years before the school was moved to the current grounds, bears a sufficient declaration to the farsightedness of the founders.
The Prince of Wales College was partnered to Punjab University, Lahore in May 1908.
At first a surge of subjects to be specific English, Mathematics, Chemistry, History, Persian, Sanskrit and Philosophy were instructed up to the Intermediate state.
In January 1910, two all the more subjectsnamely Geology and Arabic were presented and slowly the vast majority of the courses were moved up to graduation level.
During this period, the school dominated scholastically and its foundation was among the best in the entire of northern India.
It pulled in researchers and instructors of notoriety and height as its employees.
In the thirties, postgraduate classes were begun in Geology, Economics and Mathematics.
The doyen of Indian Geology dr. D N Wadia set up the Department of Geology of the school.
Its departmental gallery, with its rich and uncommon assortment, keeps on being perhaps the best historical center of Geology in the entire of Northern India.
From 1931 onwards the school conceded both male and female understudies on its moves till 1944, when a different Maharani Mahila College was opened in the Present Luthra Academy at Kachi Chawni.
In any case, in clinical stream, female understudies kept on being on the moves till as late as 1966.
In the ongoing years with the presentation of subjects like Electronics, Computer Applications, Functional English, BCA and Postgraduate course, the school has indeed begun conceding female understudies.
The school kept on growing and in 1940 Sh.
K G Sayaiden, the then Director of Education introduced an autonomous Library block.
Around a similar time, the Arts Block came up and hence branches of Bio-Sciences (1954) and Geography were likewise added.