Hindu Kanya Mahavidayala

Hindu Kanya Mahavidyalaya for Women has long been recognized as a premier institution of higher learning for women in Sitapur. A centre for academic excellence and achievement, it is today one of the finest institutions for Education, Art, while also offering a B.Ed. Programme. Planning to start Professional courses like Elementary Education, Computer education, Computer diploma and Journalism are among its strengths. Located at the cutting edge of knowledge, HKM has not just kept pace with the changing world, but has been the pioneering spirit behind many innovations in the field of education. The striving is to imbue the teaching/learning process with a unique blend of intellectual aesthetic and ethical engagement. At HKM the belief is in a holistic vision that never discounts the past, but at the same time embraces the future with solid confidence in the ability to shape it and harness its potentialities. HKM is committed to nurturing and creating women who are equipped to be world citizens. Women who take pride in their culture and heritage but also have a international understanding of the world today and a sensibility that celebrates diversity in all its joyous vibrancy. HKM students understand that with the power of knowledge, comes the responsibility to translate it into creative citizenship. They recognize challenges as opportunities. HKM students are empowered with professional competence, an ability to assume positions of leadership with ease and shatter inhibitory glass ceilings. An education at HKM enables women to reconcile excellence with humanity, to celebrate diversity and redefine notions of success. The emphasis is on a liberating and not a domesticating pedagogy. Established in 1961 in Sitapur by smt. Savitri Arora, the college had its modest beginnings in a school building at eye hospital road Sitapur, with near about 350 students, 5 faculty, 4 support staff and 2 distinct courses of study. The aim of the institution was to provide access to higher education of quality to women. HKM is a testimony to the farsighted vision of its founder and his indefatigable enthusiasm to actualize his dream. Today, the strength of student approximately 4000,over 15 faculty, 5 administrative and 5 support staff and 3 courses of study. Guided by an enlightened and supportive member, drawn from the fields of industry, law, journalism, academics and the bureaucracy. The vision of creating a centre of academic and extra curricular achievement for women, of providing a context that emancipates the intellect and the spirit, of zealously guarding a space that develops critical thinking and rescues the imagination, has been actualized. The journey well begun, has infinite potential to evolve further setting newer standards of excellence.