Swami Vivekanand P G College of Education

This is the first college of Education in HP accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) the appex body of UGC India for the Quality and Excellence in Higher Education. S.V.N. College of Education, Tarkwari came into existence by the efforts of S.V.N. Educational Society (Hamirpur) andthe courtesy of H.P. Government, H.P. University and NCTE Jaipur. The college started functioning from Oct. 3rd 2000. S.V.N. College of Education, Tarkwari is located at a distance of about 25 km from Hamirpur. It is about 12 km from Jahu on Hamirpur road and 20 km from Sarkaghat. It can be reached from most of the places by first coming to Bhota, Hamirpur or Jahu as is suitable to an individual. From these places there are buses for Tarkwari after every 15 or 20 minutes. There is regular bus service to the place from all important stations like Mandi, Shimla, Una and Hamirpur. The college is housed in its own three storied spacious building with sufficient number of rooms comprising classrooms, laboratories, library, Assembly hall, common room administrative office, staff room and sports room. The college has a well-equipped Library with large number of standard books, both on education and on general subjects. It has a spacious reading room. College subscribes to most important magazines, journals and number of newspapers. There are encyclopedia on Education besides other reference books. It is managed by a well qualified librarian (M.Lib.). The college is proud of very good computer laboratory which has sufficient number of computers and allied equipment. Computer training with basic languages is provided to all students by a computer teacher. Practical teaching on computer is given to each student. Computer trainers are qualified computer experts with vast experience of concerned area."