Dayalbagh Educational Institute

About Dayalbagh Educational Institute

Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI) is a Deemed University. The Government of India declared the Dayalbagh Educational Institute as an institution Deemed to be a University from the session 1981-82, under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act 1956 (3 of 1956). The Institute has since been accorded the membership of the Association of Indian Universities.

From the session 1986-87, the DEI Technical College, a diploma level Engineering Institution, from the session 1995-96, the DEI Prem Vidyalaya Girls’ Intermediate College, and from the session 2012-13, the REI Intermediate College have also been brought under the academic and administrative control of the Institute. In the year 1993, vocational courses were started. In the year 2004, Women wing of Technical College – Women’s Polytechnic started and in the same year the Institute initiated a major programme of Distance Education to benefit students residing in remote tribal locations.

Soon after Dayalbagh was founded in 1915, the Radhasoami Satsang Sabha, in pursuance of the lofty ideals to evolve the superman of tomorrow, started the Radhasoami Educational Institute, as a co-educational Middle School, open to all, on January 1, 1917. The Institute, since the very beginning, combined the pursuit of academic studies with sensibilities involving moral and spiritual values. From the modest beginning, the nucleus not only grew and got divided but also spawned new institutions, as per the needs of the society and the demands of the time.

Within six months, it was raised to the level of a High School; Intermediate classes were started in 1922. A Technical School, which later developed into a College, was started in 1927 for imparting training in automobile, electrical and mechanical engineering, leading to the award of diplomas in the concerned branches of Board of Technical Education, U.P. The Leather Working School which was started in 1930, gives instructions in both theory and practice for the manufacture of leather goods. It became a Degree College in 1947 with the introduction of B.Com. Classes affiliated to Agra University; B.Ed. (B.T.) classes were added in 1951 and the first batch of B.Sc. students appeared for the final examination in 1955.

To further the cause of women's education, Prem Vidyalaya was started in 1930. It is now an Intermediate College for girls. The Women's Training College was established in 1947 with B.A. and B.Ed. programmes. Subsequently, in 1958 M.Ed., in 1969 M.A. (Psychology/English/Hindi) and in 1976 M.A. (Music) programmes started. It made phenomenal progress to become one of the premier women's colleges in the country. Engineering College, affiliated to Agra University, for the degree of B.Sc. (Engineering), was added in 1950 in the evaluation of chain of educational institutions in Dayalbagh.

Dayalbagh Educational Institute was established as a registered body in 1973, which integrated and brought under one umbrella all the educational institutions of Dayalbagh, including the School of Comparative Study of Religion, the School of Languages and the School of Art and Culture. In 1975, the Dayalbagh Educational Institute formulated an innovative and comprehensive programme of undergraduate studies which received approbation from the Government of Uttar Pradesh and the University Grants Commission, as a result of which, in 1981, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, conferred the status of an institution Deemed to be a University.

Location - The Institute is situated at Dayalbagh which is at a distance of about two Km. from the city of Agra on its northern periphery. It is conveniently connected to the railway stations and bus-stands by the city buses, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and taxies (Raja ki Mandi-5 km, Agra Cantt-10 km, Agra Fort-9 km.).

Faculties and Departments

Facilities at DEI

Hostels - Limited accommodation is available in the hostels of the Institute and those run by Educational Societies in Dayalbagh is available to students, both boys and girls. Students shall be recommended for hostel admission on the basis of merit and availability of seats but admission to Institute does not guarantee a seat in hostel. Only vegetarian food is served in the hostel. Alcohol, drugs and other intoxicants are strictly prohibited.

Central Library - The D. E. I. Libraries have about 1.67 lac books on various subjects viz., Hindi, Sanskrit, English Language and Literature etc. It is subscribing to 180 journals of national and international repute, along with magazines and newspapers for general reading. Central Library holdings also include dissertations, doctoral theses and project reports on various subjects. Besides these, the Library is also equipped with the latest e-journals by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, accessible through campus-wide LAN. The library also provides access to Internet as well as CD/DVD based electronic resources.

The Centre provides laboratory facility for Information technology related classes of various certificates, diplomas, undergraduate and post graduate of faculty of Arts, Commerce, Education, Science, Social Sciences in addition to various vocational courses for students of Technical College and Women Polytechnic. Special courses are organized for unemployed youth by the Alumni Association.

Scholarships - The Institute and charitable Institutions award various types of scholarships, loans and loan scholarships to poor, meritorious and certain other categories of students. Application for such scholarships and loans can be recommended provided the applicant's conduct and progress in studies are good

Distance Education - The Distance Education Council (DEC) of IGNOU has given recognition to the Distance Education Programme of DEI. On the recommendation of the Joint Committee of UGC-AICTE-DEC, approval has been accorded by DEC to a number of programmes for being conducted in distance mode.

Features:

• A mix of traditional instruction and e-education
• Unique system with counselling sessions held at Study Centres
• Videos, live and web-based lessons
• In Semi-synchronous mode, recorded video lectures
• In Synchronous or Live mode, lectures broadcast live, in video conferencing mode from D.E.I. through EDUSAT / Polycom over the Internet
• In Home Based Instruction Mode, students access pre-recorded lectures of their courses at their place of convenience (home or otherwise) through a secure web-site
• Students provided with self-learning printed material, question banks and access to reference material
• Fully equipped Labs, Computer Facilities and Workshops for Practical Training locally and through well planned Personal Contact Programmes at Headquarters

Games and Sports - The Institute has a number of large play-grounds which fully cater to the needs for athletics and all outdoor games like football, hockey, cricket, basketball, volleyball and kho-kho and indoor facilities for badminton, table tennis etc.

Language Laboratory - The Department of English Studies has a 24 booth Language-cum-Teaching Laboratory. The laboratory is equipped with a two-way-cum-broadcast communication system and audio playback equipment. The attached library has an impressive collection of audio teaching material for General and Business English Communication. The laboratory is open to all students of the University and also provides services to allied Institutions. 

Medical and Health Care - The students and staff of the Institute are attended to by the Medical Officer of the Saran Ashram Hospital, Dayalbagh, and are administered treatment for ordinary ailments without charges. The Hospital has provision for pathological testing, diathermy and ECG etc., on payment of charges.

Multimedia Laboratory – It houses cameras, projection systems, video/editing stations amongst other equipment, provides a central point where the Institute generates content for its distance education programmes.  This facility is also used on a regular basis to receive and transmit live lectures, and hold interactive sessions with students in remote classrooms both in India and abroad on a regular basis.

Non-Resident Student Centre and Canteen - There is a Non-Resident Students Centre for Girls which serves as a composite Reading Room-cum-Common Room-cum-Canteen for the spare time needs of the female day scholars. For male students, there is canteen facility in the Campus.

USIC - The University Science and Instrumentation Centre (USIC) offers training programmes for students and staff through regular short courses and advanced work experience courses on Computers and Peripherals and Basic Scientific Glass Blowing.

CART - The Centre for Applied Rural Technology (CART) offers a large number of vocational courses through its Modular and Certificate level programmes. These programmes are employment oriented and offered at a nominal fee for all sections of the society without any age limit. The centre is well equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to train students adequately enabling their good placement. The Centre is registered with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and recognised as Skill Knowledge Provider (SKP) in the sectors of Automobile and IT upto level 5 of National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) / National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF).

e-DEI-de – DEI is planning to provide online delivery of certificate Courses, Diplomas and Degree programmes through e-DEI-Distance Education (Not for profit) or e-DEI-de. Each course is divided as modules of 2-3 week duration. The modules are administered in an online format involving standard web based delivery components as well as a unique aspect of online consulting and discussion forums through audio and video conferencing. A student will enroll for a module or a course and after completing the requirements for the module or the course will be awarded a module or course completion certificate.

The subjects for certificate programmes will range from common soft skills to highly demanded management to contemporary nano technology and esoteric consciousness studies. Gradually the programmes will include Diplomas and Degrees in Management, Computer Science and Engineering. For these programmes, Personal Contact Modules will be organized for the students of the professional programmes so that a unique experience is created.

Features

• Program is available anytime and anywhere
• Candidates get material which is self-explanatory and interactive
• Online videos and synchronous contact through Skype / Polycom systems
• Online submission of assignments
• Centre based examinations

Vidyaprasar – Vidyaprasar is Institute's on-line collaborative learning, live web cast and content management system. Vidya Prasar provides course web publishing, file storage and sharing facilities through a web based connection to the Internet thus providing full portability. It will host course websites and material, and Wiki for courses in Computer Science and Engineering. As part of future development of the system, live streaming services, interactive seminars, e-Books, on-line self-examination facilities, and video-on-demand services, will go on the web by the second quarter of 2011. Sponsored by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) this project is part of a tri-institute collaborative initiative coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and with the Amrita University as the third partner.