Lyallpur Khalsa College of Education for Women, Jalandhar Infrastructure: Library, Gym, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Infrastructure :-

At Lyallpur Khalsa College of Education for Women (LKCE) the students are endowed with all convenient amenities that make their life 'go easy' in college hours, alongside make learning more interesting. Some of the facilities include well ventilated classrooms, recreational areas, hostel facility for boys and girls, indoor and outdoor games, stocked library, medical facilities etc.

Facilities :-

Library

A library is the heart of an academic institution. Our institution encourages all students and staff members to make best use of the library that has been carefully built up since the inception of the college. The library is housed in a spacious area, fully computerized and conditioned with Reference Section, Magazine Section and Stack Area. Presently there are more than 35,000 books and reference volumes stacked in English, Hindi and Punjabi languages for the benefit of staff and students. There is an established media resource centre. Our library follows the open access system and is encouraging students to browse in the stack area. The library subscribes more than 80 specialized journals, over one third of them being international..

Hostel

The college has a beautiful hostel equipped with modern amenities. Though situated on the same campus as the college, it is housed in a totally separate residential Block. Located in an open compound with beautiful lawns with flowers, the building is surrounding on all sides by huge walls to ensure safety and protection to the inmates of the hostel. It is very well ventilated building with a spacious courtyard which apart from providing facilities to sleep in the open in summer and enjoy sun in winter is a good medium to keep the room well-lighted. On the back side, each room has a separate Veranda. Atmosphere in the hostel is very congenial for the harmonious development of personality. Conditions are conductive to good health and good physique. For enriching the ;Mind’ the community and corporate life unites children like links in a chain. All the inmates are attached to one another like members in a family.

Sports

Department of Physical Education was established in 1960 under the able guidance of Principal Miss S.K. Avtar Singh and Mrs. Karminder Choudhery as Director Physical Education.
LKCW is known for excellence in sports for the last 5 decades. It has a glorious record of achievements in the field of hockey, basketball, football, kabaddi and athletics. From 1961 to 1969 A and B teams of both hockey and Kho-Kho were the winners as well as runners-up of Punjab University.

From 1961-1970 college bagged overall championships as well as athletic championships. Many players represented India like Ajinder Kaur (Capt. Indian Team), Rajbir Kaur (baby queen of Hockey) (Golden Girl), Chanchal Randhawa, Nisha, Kirandeep,Yogita Bali and Gurjit Kaur.

Physical education was introduced as a subject in 1982 and Mrs. Sukhjinder Kaur joined the department in 1984. After the retirement of Mrs. Karminder Choudhery, Mrs. Sareen joined the department in 1997 as Head of the Department.

During the last 5 years the college has shown an upward graph in the number of teams and there has been a good increase in the number of achievements. GNDU Amritsar recognizes the achievements of those affiliated colleges whose achievements contribute to the winning of Mulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy in sports. It is a matter of great pride that our college is one of the three women colleges whose contribution is always recognized.