Government Degree College for Women, Anantnag (GDCWA) was established in 1979 as the first women’s College in South Kashmir with a fundamental aim that the women of the adjoining areas get easy access to quality higher education. Started as a fledgling with 21 students, 07 teaching faculty members, two non-teaching members, one building of nine rooms, offering one program, the College has steadily evolved into a full-blown tree having more than 6000 students, forty-two courses, six programs, and 121 faculty members, 12 buildings, and 42 classrooms in 2020. Spread over 35 Kanals of land in the heart of Anantnag city, the College has been a preferred educational destination for the young women of many Jammu and Kashmir districts, including AnantnagBanihal, Kulgam, Kishtwar, Pulwama, Shopian, and Srinagar. In its four decades of service, the College has transformed thousands of lives by its commitment to empowering women with the wings of quality education along with the values of equality and equity. It is this unfailing commitment to quality education that the College has been able to produce alumni who have occupied key positions in society at the regional, national, and international levels. Our focus on quality education is encrusted with a repertoire of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities aimed at the overall development of our students. Seminars, debates, quizzes, talks, conferences, cultural programs, and sporting events are an established norm in our College.

Distinguished for the infrastructural facilities, the College has 42 ICT-driven classrooms, three computer labs, two browsing centers, well-equipped science laboratories, a spacious auditorium, an e-content studio, an indoor stadium, and an extensive collection of books in our central library. Distinguished for the infrastructural facilities, the College has 42 ICT-driven classrooms, three computer labs, two browsing centers, well-equipped science laboratories, a spacious auditorium, an e-content studio, an indoor stadium, and an extensive collection of books in our central library.

In terms of the student services, the College has adequate facilities for pre-admission counseling, financial help to the deserving, underprivileged, orphan, and differently-abled students, printing and xerox, basic hygiene, medical and healthcare services, a fair-price shop, canteen, and a gym and yoga center. In terms of the student services, the College has adequate facilities for pre-admission counseling, financial help to the deserving, underprivileged, orphan, and differently-abled students, printing and xerox, basic hygiene, medical and healthcare services, a fair-price shop, canteen, and a gym and yoga center.

Our Vision

  • An institution of Academic excellence.
  • Centre for women emancipation and empowerment.
  • Deemed women’s University.

Our Mission

  • Prepare enlightened morally upright and emotionally balanced and socially committed students.
  • Provide comprehensive contemporary education through use of latest technologies.
  • Develop work ethos through entrepreneurship skills and values of human and composed culture.
  • Prepare students to be productive individuals with clarity of thoughts, precession of action.

Implementation of NEP 2020

  • Increasing Gross Enrolment Ratio.
  • Equity, diversity &inclusive education.
  • Faculty management &development.
  • Vocationalization& skill development.
  • Introduction of new subjects in 3+1 honor’s mode.
  • Technology intervention.

Student Support Services

  • No. of Hostel (Boys/Girls) with built up area: 02 (Girls) with bed capacity of 200.
  • Playfields with area: One Games field with all the major outdoor sports facilities.
  • Indoor Stadium with Health club: One Indoor Multi-Purpose Hall, One Health Club/Gym
  • Dispensary with built up area: One Health Centre
  • Canteen Block with built up area: Two Canteens with seating capacity of 300
  • Girls Common Room with area: One Common Room with seating capacity of 200
  • Toilet Blocks (B/G) with built up area: Six toilet blocks
  • Facilities for specially-abled: All the newly constructed buildings have ramp access. One of the newly constructed build has lift also in addition to ramp and staircases.
  • Central Instrumentation facility: One CIF with all the major scientific equipment’s like Thermal cycler, Laminar Hood, UV transilluminator, Vertical Electrophoresis Unit, Horizontal
  • Electrophoresis Unit, refrigerated Centrifuge, Spectophometer, + other basic lab equipment.
  • Career Counseling/Placement Cell:In Place
  • Centralized Computational Setup: The College is running 5-year IG course in Computer Applications, with high end computational facility.
  • Dean Student welfare (Student welfare Schemes); Deans of each faculty
  • Scholarship/Financial Aid (Number of existing beneficiaries with quantum of financial support): Financial Aid is given to the students each year at the rate of 3000/student.
  • Student mentoring system: The College has Mentor-Mentee model in place where students are mentored in academics, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
  • Participation of Students in State / National / International events (Supports/Debates/Competitions etc.):
  • Feedback System: IQAC gets students feedback regularly based on NAAC format. The college also gets feedback from the Higher Education Feedback portal.
  • Extension and community outreach: Regularly conducted by NSS, Eco-club and other committees
  • Students’ grievances redressal mechanism: Deans of various programmes are also designated as grievance redressal officers. Students submit grievance online and offline, which are redressed in timely manner.
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