Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women

ri Swetambar Stanakwasi Jain Educational Society (Regd.) was founded in the year 1937. The society has been rendering yeomen service to the community by nurturing learning experience and enabling students to realize their inherent potential and to mould them into competent, self-reliant and socially responsible citizens. In the seven decades of its presence, the Society has been responsible for successfully establishing several educational institutions like : 1. Mohan mull Chordia Jain Industrial Training Centre. 2. Sri AgurchandManmull Jain College. 3. Sri Tarachand Galada Jain Vidyalaya. 4. Sri Mangichand Bhandari Jain Higher Secondary School. 5. Sri AmoluckChandGalada JainHigher Secondary School. 6. Sri Badalchand SayarchandChordia Jain Vidyalaya. Sri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women is yet another feather in the cap of Sri S. S. Jain Educational Society. The College has been established with a generous contribution made by Smt.Sundarbai Shankarlal Charitable Trust, T.Nagar, Chennai of the?SHASUN? Family and Group, which is one of the leading Indian manufacturers of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients strongly built on its R&D expertise with a global presence. The Management Committee of the College consists of eminent industrialists, philanthropists, academicians and administrators of repute. With their constant guidance and encouragement, the College is confident of converting itself into an institution of excellence. The aim of Sri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women is to provide quality education to young aspiring women candidates and to equip them to meet the changing needs of the society and industry. With this goal in mind the College provides the students a congenial atmosphere conducive to their academic and creative growth. It is a self-supporting institution committed to the cause of education : general, professional, moral and technical, catering to the educational aspirations of the society at large. It embodies and strives to deliver world-class education and research in Science and Humanities. The College seeks to foster inter-disciplinary working within the campus and encourages external collaboration. In pursuit of this goal, the College seeks to develop in the students an intellectual curiosity and an open mind to excel academically and in extra curricular activities. The College has a team of highly reputed established academicians, a well equipped library with a wide range of books, periodicals, journals (national and international) e-resources manuals and an impressive Computer Centre with internet facilities. It also has a well-laid playground and facilities for indoor and outdoor games. The college has unique research, training and counseling centre called Shasun Shakthi which conducts add on courses, aesthetic diploma courses, wall magazines, collateral competitions, projects, seminars, stage shows, exhibitions, Kala Utsav and Meena Bazaars. Every classroom is provided with LCD projectors, and pin up boards. The College has a fully equipped Visual Communication department with a research centre attached, called RACE. The college was granted permission by the Govt. of Tamilnadu by its G.O. of16th September, 2004 and affiliation by the University of Madras on 18th May 2005.The College works to become a centre of excellence. In 2010-11 there were about 3000 students enrolled.