BD Arts College for Women

B.D. COLLEGE (Balabhai Damodardas College), Ahmedabad was established in 1956 by the donation of Sakarlal Balabhai Damodardas Charitable Trust. It is located in the heart of the walled city. It is the premier girls college affiliated with Gujarat university. It was inaugurated by Shri Morarjibhai Desai, the Chief Minister of Bombay Province. It has the proud privilege of being the first college in Gujarat University to have offered Home Science as the Entire subject in the Three Year Degree Course. The college has the honor of starting Post Graduate Center in Home Science in 1961, for the first time in Gujarat and since then it has remained the only P.G. center in Gujarat University. The P.G. Department has to its credit 160 dissertations. It also ran center for M.phil in Home Science for 6 years. Ten students also obtained Ph.D from this center under the guidance of Dr. Leelaben Shah, Dr. A.N. Desai and Dr. U.D. Patel. In 1983, the college hosted a conference of Gujarat Chapter of All India Home Science Teacher Association.