Bhavan's College, Andheri

Bhavan's College

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Type	Education and Research Institution
Established	1946
Principal	Dr.Usha Parameshwaran
Academic staff	200
Students	15,800
Location	Andheri, Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Campus	Urban 65 Acres
Affiliations	University of Mumbai, NAAC, AICTE
Website	www.bhavans.ac.in

Bhavan's College is a college located at Andheri West, a suburb in Mumbai, India. It was established in 1946, a year before India gained independence from The British Empire in 1947.

Kulapati Dr. K.M. Munshiji was the founding president of the college.

Bhavan's College is a part of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. The college is built upon 45 acres (180,000 m²) of land and has huge volleyball and basketball courts, as well as football pitches and a botanical garden. The Nature and Amateur Radio clubs are very popular. The college festivals are the Ray Film Festival O2 and Bhavans Nature fest Prakruti. The streams offered here are Arts, Science, Commerce, Information Technology, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Management Studies and Mass Media.

Festival

• O2 - ‘O2 the Fest’ is a theme-based and Popular intercollegiate cultural festival, involving student participation from a number of city Colleges. It provides a platform for various innovative competitions like singing, dancing, music, mimicry, acting, painting and other fine arts. All these competitions are in accordance to the chosen themes. What is noteworthy is that the O2 festival is always based on a Socially Relevant theme and always carries a value-based, socially relevant message which the students imbibe while enjoying the festival
• Ray film Festival - RAY is another theme based intercollegiate Film Festival organised by the College dedicated to the memory of doyen of Indian cinema: Honourable Satyajit Ray. RAY provides opportunity for students to actualize and showcase their talents to relate to various mass media like cinema, print media, advertising, television and so on. This festival in addition to teaching the students, it is to appreciate and study eminent film-makers, also provides a chance to learn techniques and technology to explore careers in the mass media. A look at the themes would attest to the fact that the students too like to search their roots and traditions and yet relate to their own times.

Campus

Bhavans college having campus around 65 acres in the middle of the city which include

• botanical garden
• cricket, volley ball and football ground
• lake
• auditorium
• amphitheater
• Temple
• yoga bharti

Activities

• NCC - The Motto of NCC is Unity and Discipline; Cadets are trained during camps in areas like disaster management, first aid, martial arts, mountaineering, army, self defense and other tools of sustenance and survival. The cadets also offered their social services in Blood Donation Camp, Ganapati Visarjan Project and Red Ribbon Ex. Rally against AIDS, Pulse Polio Drive, Senior Citizen Adoption, Tree Plantation, Anti Female Feticide Rally and gave their contribution towards society
• NSS - encourages students in developing soft skills, discipline, and empathy to serve fellow beings and community. N.S.S. volunteers participate in Community service during festivals and social drives. Street plays on social issues are also staged by NSS volunteers.Preparing documentaries and projects with specific social messages. Student initiative drives with social message like BEEP (drive against use of abusive language) and ACT HUMAN (drive to initiate civic sense awareness).

Sports

Sports is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants. College has a well equipped gymkhana along with a large play ground; this makes the atmosphere on the compass conducive to sports. All the sports activities are looked after by Sports Committee composed of faculty members and student representatives. As per University guidelines on 3% seats in all academic programmes students with achievements in sports are admitted. College has a busy sporting schedule in which various interclass tournaments in the disciplines of football, cricket, volleyball, chess, and table tennis are organized. Apart from this there is annual Athletics meet. In addition, students regularly participate in various intercollegiate sports meets at both state and national levels. Services of best coaches are hired and latest equipments are made available to the participants. Students who participate in sports competitions are helped by the faculty members to cope with their studies. Various scholarships and prizes are instituted to encourage students to take up sports.

• CRICKET
• FOOTBALL
• TENNIS BALL
• VOLLEY BALL
• TABLE TENNIS

External links

• Bhavan's College, Andheri