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About Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, New Delhi

Sri Venkateswara College was started in 1961 by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), Tirupati, an autonomous organisation that manages 12 temples and their sub-shrines, and runs charitable and educational institutions all over India. Started off in a school building and later moved into the present college building in 1971, with an initial objective to provide educational needs to students hailing from southern states living in Delhi. Over the years the college outgrew its regional character and started serving students from all parts of India and is now one of the desired colleges in Delhi.

Sri Venkateswara College is affiliated to the University of Delhi and provides courses on Science, Humanities and Commerce disciplines. The 15-acre campus provides facilities like good classrooms, laboratories, library, hostel, canteen, sports department, medical and banking facilities and many clubs and societies for students’ activities.

Sri Venkateswara College Facilities:

Sri Venkateswara College has a lush green campus of 15-acres with facilities like library, Wi-Fi, bioinformatics centre, cafeteria, stationery store, medical room, bank and sports department. 

The library of Sri Venkateswara College has a collection of over  1,00,000 books on all subjects and disciplines needed for the college. There is also a collection of 20 encyclopedias and 200 CDs. The library is subscribed to 68 journals and 12 newspapers in 4 languages. Apart from the main library, there are departmental libraries for every department with books exclusive to the subjects of respective departments. Library provides assistive services for the visually impaired students and the library also have books and materials in Braille. 

There are 3 computer labs in the college with 130 computers with the latest technology. There is another internet resource lab that provide Wi-Fi to the whole campus. The BioInformatics Centre(BIC) in Sri Venkateswara College is the first BioInformatics Centre established in University of Delhi and North India to cater the computational and bioinformatics needs of students, scholars and teachers of various department of the college. 

The canteen of Sri Venkateswara College Delhioffers delicious and healthy foods and snacks from all parts of India with a special reputation for the south Indian foods. The canteen acts as the epicentre for all the extracurricular activities. 

Sri Venkateswara College also provides facilities like medical room and banking facilities. There is a branch of Andhra Bank in the campus for the ease of banking for the students and staff. The medical room with the availability of a trained nurse for an emergency situation. The College also provides facilities for the differently-abled students by providing ramps, rails and special toilets to suit their needs. 

The sports department of Sri Venkateswara College has produced many renowned sports personnel. The sports department offers facilities for games like cricket, football, basketball, tennis, and indoor facilities for table tennis, badminton,  caroms and chess.