founded by the dav college managing committee in memory of mahatma hans raj a pioneer in the field of education the hansraj college has travelled a long distance in providing quality higher education in the countrytoday the college boasts of being one of the bettermanaged colleges in du the principal of the college s r arora said it has been our endeavour to facilitate the education of students in the best possible way whether its through faculty or infrastructure that includes a wellstocked library separate department libraries for science subjects and a book bank for needy students education aid in terms of scholarships and fee waivers wellequipped laboratories and a hostel that can accommodate about 180 boys we always believe in providing the best facilities to our students nowadays the college is in the process of infrastructural upgradation the computerisation of the library is nearly over and all activities related to library will be done online in future the college has even started to provide internet facility to studentshansraj offers various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science commerce and humanities to add the college gives students an opportunity to pursue parttime certificate diploma and advanced diploma courses in french and german languages the college promotes extracurricular activities among students in a big way we have various societies like debating dramatics and fine arts which help in multidimensional growth of students arora added a faculty at the english department k g verma felt proud in claiming that hansraj is amongst those few colleges which promotes values among students when asked for his comment on the installation of close circuit televisions cctvs in colleges arora remarked we do not plan to install cctvs in our college this refrains a principal from taking rounds to keep a tab on happenings in different parts of the college the favourite hot spot of the college is its canteen as it provides an ambience to relax and chat the canteen is popular for its spring rolls tomato soup cutlets and gulab jamun as far as recent achievements are concerned the college appears to have done pretty well in its academics as well as extracurricular activities particularly sports one of our students has scored the highest marks in b com hons in the du this is a great achievement for us as this position was always occupied by a student from the shri ram college of commerce besides we have 43 firstclass students in economics this time which again is the highest number in the university the college has won the chancellors trophy 200304 in sports too arora saidspeaking on placements arora exclaimed we have a very active placement cell in our college notably 240 hansraj students got placed through campus recruitments in 200304