Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute

As a part of the continuing endeavour of Vidya Bhawan Society, Rural Institute was established in 1956 to impart quality education to the deprived sections of rural India. Under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Education, Government of India, it was conceived as one in the chain of institutes of rural higher education started at various places in the country focusing on teaching, research and extension to cater to the growing and fast emerging needs of the rural community. Over the last 50 years, Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute has been serving in the field of higher education. Established with the primary objective of filling the gap between rural and urban sections of society and catering to the growing and fast emerging needs of rural community, Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute successfully continues its long and arduous journey. Initiating with courses like Rural Services Diploma and Community Polytechnic, it has today not only retained its initial rural oriented character, but has also diversified itself in order to keep pace with the growing demands of today's globalized world. Today it is a full fledged multifaculty P.G. College affiliated to M.L. Sukhadia University offering courses in Science, Arts, Commerce and Management. With the introduction of relevant P.G., professionally viable and vocational courses, it continues to upgrade itself. But in the process it has never compromised with basic ideals and philosophy of Vidya Bhawan i.e. imparting quality education with creating opportunities particularly to the economically & socially marginalized sections of society.
Presently, the Institute offers the following regular courses which are affiliated to Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur:

In order to further fulfill the basic vision and objective of Vidya Bhawan for making quality education accessible to those who can not pursue regular academic programmes, the Study Centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi was set up in 2003 offering a wide variety of professional, vocational, certificate, diploma and degree courses. The work done by the Study Centre in terms of quality students-service and efficiency has been recognized and appreciated fairly well by the University as well as the students.

A close scrutiny of the enrollment of students ever since the inception of the Institute will reveal that significant component of our admissions comprises SC/ST, OBC students, that too belonging to the rural areas of the region. It is a co-educational college and gradually girls have started showing interest and their number too has increased over the last five years. At present the Institute has 832 students on its rolls. Among them 756 are boys and 76 are girls.

The Institute offers teaching to regular day scholars as well as hostellers and provides access to students to higher education through distance education mode. Owing to the comprehensive modes of education made available, the students are provided flexible options in respect of their academic pursuits.

The Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute has well-qualified and experienced teaching faculty with a strength of 18 permanent teachers. Out of which 10 are with Ph.D. qualification, 2 are with M.Phil and 6 are with PG as highest qualification. There are 9 teachers working on temporary basis, out of which 2 are with Ph.D. qualification and 7 are with PG as highest qualification. There are 11 teachers working as part-time teachers. Out of which 3 are with Ph.D., 8 are PG as the highest qualification. There are 16 non-teaching staff, out of which 8 are administrative and 8 are technical staff.

Geographical location, site and accessibility

The Institute is located in the midst of picturesque surrounding and the sprawling campus is spread over 60 acres of land. It comprises of Academic wing, Administrative wing, Laboratories, Hostels and Residential Quarters. The Institute is situated 2 K.M. away from Fetehpura Crossing on Badgaon Road (N.H.-76) and is well accessible by means of local road transport.

The Institute has adequate physical infrastructure (land & building) that comprises class rooms, faculty rooms, laboratories, library, computer centre, hostels, canteen, play grounds, indoor games facility and residential quarters. It has separate laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Computer Science and Geography. All laboratories are well equipped to meet the requirements of teaching and learning as per the syllabus. The Institute's library is situated in a double storey building adjoining Administrative block and is well stocked having nearly 40,000 books related to different subjects it is being run on the open access system which permits students to have access to all available books. It also offers Book Bank facility to all students and nearly 80% students utilize this service. Institute's library subscribes 24 magazines, 9 journals & periodicals & all major daily newspapers- local, regional, national. The Institute provides indoor and outdoor games & sports facility to its students. There are two play grounds which are used for playing football, hockey, cricket, kho-kho, and for track & field events. There are separate courts for Kabbaddi & volleyball. Indoor facility for Table Tennis is also available. Facilities are adequate to hold inter-collegiate tournaments. There are three hostels situated in the premises of the institute that have accommodation facility for 100 students. Presently two hostels are being utilized by the Sewa Mandir. Thirty one residential quarters are available for teaching and non-teaching staff and eight quarters for class IV staff. The Institute also provides water facility from its own sources.

Publications & other services

Students of BBM regularly publish their annual magazine STRIDES and newsletter TARKASH. Students of English Department have also made a maiden effort to publish their magazine MUSINGS

Anganwadi Workers Training Centre

One of the distinguishing feature of the Institute which signifies community orientation in its activity is having an Aanganwadi workers training centre which imparts job oriented training and arranges orientation & refresher courses for Aanagnwadi workers and helpers. The Aanganwadi training centre has been functioning at the Institute since Aug 16, 1982. This centre has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of Rajasthan, Jaipur.The Institute also organises NFE camps in collaboration with Seva Mandir to motivate the dropout children of villages to go to school.

The Institute as its avowed objective of serving the weak, strives to concentrate all its energies and resources on the all round development of rural youth in a quiet, serene and highly conducive atmosphere of learning. In spite of commercialization and privatization of higher education, the Institute has successfully adhered to the pursuit of its basic philosophy and has maintained a steady pace of growth notwithstanding the financial crunch it has been facing over the period of last five years. Recognising its sustained and concrete services to the society over the last fifty years,the Institute has achieved a unique distinction of being assessed and accredited with B++ grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Banglore. Our Institute is the first grant-in-aid college affiliated to M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur that got itself assessed and accredited by NAAC. The grade obtained by the Institute is similar to that obtained by the M.L. Sukhadia University,Udaipur.Recently it has also been conferred the status of Model College - centre of excellence-by the state government in order to strengthen teaching, research and extension. The Institute is assigned the historic and significant role to provide academic guidance and leadership to colleges in the region in terms of designing and introducing vocational and professional courses, undertaking faculty improvement training and orientation programmes, major and minor research project modernization of syllabus, providing access to modern technology to the deprived section of our society. The Institute does not have formal records regarding prominent positions held by the alumni. However, from personal contact between teachers and students it could be stated that many of alumni are holding very good positions in govt. and semi govt. bodies, universities and corporate & business sector serving as doctors, engineers, college and University teachers, chartered accountants, bank officers, state and central Government executives.

After the accolade received from NAAC and the conferring of the status of a Model College (Centre of Excellence) by the State Government, the Institute is all set to embark of its dream to develop it as a major centre of learning in higher education not only in Rajasthan but in the entire country. The Institute has over the years build confidence in the society by establishing its credibility at large. It looks itself to be known for facilitating research, provide academic, professional & vocational knowledge to all and in particular to the rural community and the backward sections of society who have been neglected ever since the privatisation of education began. We look towards carrying out programs that would widen the horizone, increase the decision making capacity and provide training to increase their employment opportunities. We wish to reposition and restructure the Institute to financial and academic autonomy so as to induct wide range of academic, professional and vocational courses. We also want to develop it as a deemed university. Even in the existing framework we are planning to start M.Sc. Industrial Chemistry, MA Geography, BCA, MCA, PGDCA, Post Graduate Diploma in remote sensing, P.G. Diploma in Insurance, Four year Integrated course leading to the award of BA-B.Ed./B.Sc. B.Ed. degrees. To further the academic pursuits we wish to strengthen our infrastructure with addition of more classrooms, laboratories, gymnasium, computer centre, well equipped seminar hall and conference room. We would continue to pursue our aim to be recognised as an ideal centre of education that would become a model for others to emulate. It would maintain its steady pace of growth and shall be cherished for its commitment to make the world better and equitable place.

Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute

(P.G. College of Arts, Science, Commerce and Management)(Accredited with B++ grade by NAAC)

(P.G. College of Arts, Science, Commerce and Management)
(Accredited with B++ grade by NAAC)