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Kirori Mal College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1954, it is located in the heart of North Campus of the university in New Delhi, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the sciences, humanities and commerce.According to NIRF it is the 9th best college in India in overall category(i.e.3rd best college in Delhi University) and according to India Today College Rankings, it is the 6th best college in India for pure sciences(Chemistry) and 5th best college for Humanities.The National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited it with a CGPA of 3.54 (A++) in 2023, which is the third highest among all Delhi University colleges.
According to NIRF records, it has spent more than 300 Crores in a single year 2021 for infrastructure development and for salary of teaching and non-teaching staff.




History



The college began as Nirmala College and was located on Delhi Road. Faced with problems relating to the staff in the period following the partition, the management of the college changed hands and the trust founded by Seth Kirori Mal took over. It shifted to its present campus on 1 February 1954. The foundation stones of the college were laid down by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad in the summer of 1955. The campus infrastructure was designed by the famous architect duo Anand Apte and CSH Jhabvala.
The first principal of the college was Ch. Hardwari Lal (1954–57). Kirori Mal College began its first full-fledged functioning from the academic session 1956–57. He was followed by Sarup Singh (1957–65) who later became the Professor-and-Head, Department of English, University of Delhi and then the Vice-Chancellor, DU, followed by becoming the Lt. Governor, Delhi and then the Governor of Gujarat.
Kirori Mal College was one of the few institutions of the University of Delhi selected for sports training during the Commonwealth Games in 2010 which led to new facilities being created in the form of a new building and a gymnasium to facilitate sports and other activities.




Departments


Department of Bengali
Department of Botany
Department of Chemistry
Department of Commerce
Department of Computer Science
Department of Economics
Department of English
Department of Geography
Department of Hindi
Department of History
Department of Mathematics
Department of Philosophy
Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences
Department of Physics
Department of Political Science
Department of Sanskrit
Department of Urdu
Department of Statistics
Department of Zoology




Hostel


The college hostel is situated next to the sports complex of the college. Its 89 rooms house around 170 undergraduate and postgraduate students from both India and abroad. Hostel seats are allocated to various courses and admission is made on the basis of merit.




Rankings


The National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited it with a CGPA of 3.54 (
A++) in 2016, which is the third highest among all Delhi University colleges. The college was ranked 18th among colleges in India by the NIRF, Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2019 and 19th in 2020. Kirori Mal College was ranked 9th among colleges in India according to the latest NIRF rankings by Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2024.




Notable alumni



Kirori Mal College has a large alumni base. Notable members include:




= Actors, directors and singers

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Krishnakumar Kunnath - Playback Singer
Amitabh Bachchan - actor
Abhishek Banerjee (actor)
Habib Faisal - Screenwriter and Director
Satish Kaushik - actor, director
Ravi Baswani - film actor
Siddharth Narayan - actor
Prashant Narayanan - actor
Sanam Puri - singer
Shakti Kapoor - actor and comedian
Vijay Raaz - film actor
Divyendu Sharma - actor
Sushant Singh - film and television actor
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub - actor
Ali Abbas Zafar - director
Vijay Krishna Acharya - screenwriter and director
Kabir Khan - director
Sargun Mehta - television actress
Sonam Sherpa musician Parikrama
Geetika Vidya Ohlyan - Actress




= Politicians

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Naveen Patnaik - former Chief Minister of Odisha and the chief of Biju Janata Dal, a regional political party in Odisha. He is a writer and has published 3 books.
Madanlal Khurana - former Chief Minister of Delhi.
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam -politician.
Girija Prasad Koirala - former Prime Minister of Nepal.
Pravesh Verma, Delhi politician.




= Others

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Padmavathy Bandopadhyay - first woman Air Marshal of Indian Air Force
Habib Faisal - Hindi screenwriter and director
Aditya Ghosh - Businessman who worked in aviation and hospitality
Gaurav Bidhuri - boxer who won medal at World Championship
Yogesh Kathuniya - Paralympic Athlete - Discus throw
Vaibhav Singh Yadav - World Boxing Council(WBC) Asia & Asian Boxing Federation(ABF) Titles Champion
M.S. Kohli - Indian mountaineer
Massoud Khalili
M. S. Krishnan -Chair of Business Information Technology at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
Abhay Kumar - poet, artist and diplomat
Sanjivan Lal - film maker
Harbans Mukhia - Indian historian
Saeed Naqvi - journalist
Parikrama - band
Raghuvendra Singh Rathore
Rajshekhar -Indian lyricist
Himanshu Sharma - Bollywood screenwriter
Mrityunjay Kumar Singh
Dinesh Thakur - theatre director
Mirza Waheed - Writer
Arjun Dev- Writer, Educationist and Historian, he co-wrote some of the extremely popular NCERT books




= Notable faculty

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Hiren Gohain
Krishna Kumar
Sarup Singh (ex-VC, University of Delhi and former Governor of Kerala and Gujarat )




References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Amitabh Bachchan
• KK (penyanyi)
• Sargun Mehta
• Satish Kaushik
• Vijay Krishna Acharya
• Tim nasional sepak bola Tibet
• Kirori Mal College
• Satish Kaushik
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Ali Abbas Zafar
• KK (singer)
• Abhishek Banerjee (actor)
• Lady Shri Ram College
• Naveen Patnaik
• Kamala Nehru College
• Tushar Pandey