Sohan Lal DAV College of Education, Ambala Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The college has a well-maintained girls’ hostel. It has a dining hall and a kitchen with a capacity to serve about 40 girls at a time. The facilities attached to the hostel are a well-furnished TV Lounge, a guest room for visitors, and a badminton compound. There is a provision for indoor games like Carrom Board and Table Tennis. There are two generators of the latest quality to provide power when there is an electricity failure. The hostel is looked after by a lady member of the faculty, who acts as the Hostel Warden.

The college has a health center with a first aid facility for the students.

The college has a Gym facility for the students.

The college has a fully automated digital library with an internet inquiry facility where all activities like the lending of books, purchase of books, lending of audiovisual material, and book bank are computerized. The library has an important role to play in an educational Institution. It is an essential core element and dynamic instrument for the promotion of educational research. The founder of the college Rai Bahadhur Sohan Lal had a passion for good books. So the library of this college started functioning with the inception of the college in 1939 at Lahore. The library is well equipped with the latest books. It has 23,521 books in stock. It subscribes to various journals on education. Books are properly Classified, Catalogued & arranged systematically for the users. Research and reference sections are well stocked.

College Games and sports are essential features of a college of education because invariably teachers are assigned duties in a school related to this. In addition to the academic work with which a teacher is mainly entrusted, he has to develop the quality of physical fitness and character development, in his students as well. The college organizes various types of sports activities.

The college has an air-conditioned Computer Laboratory fitted with fourteen computers with printers and scanners. All academic work relating to the holding of seminars and conferences is carried out through computers. The salary bills of the staff and a part of other accounts are maintained on computers.

The college has a canteen facility for staff and students.

The college has an auditorium facility for events and seminars.

The college has Educational Institutions, especially, teacher education institutions transform human resources to achieve human excellence. Sohan Lal DAV Alumni Association has envisioned mobilizing human resources for professional development in the field of education. In this background, the Association works towards finding solutions to existing problems through the collective sharing of multiple experiences for human growth and national development.

The college has a departmental-based laboratory facility for the students.

Computer Laboratory:-

The college has an air-conditioned Computer Laboratory fitted with fourteen computers with printers and scanners. All academic work relating to the holding of seminars and conferences is carried out through computers. The salary bills of the staff and a part of other accounts are maintained on computers. Qualified and trained staff is handling the computers and providing instructions to the students. Computer literacy workshops in collaboration with NCTE are regularly held in the computer laboratory for the benefit of teacher educators hailing from the different colleges of education in the state. The college has planned to install VSET for the transmission and reception of the programs.  

Home Science Lab:- 

The Institute has a state-of-the-art home science lab well equipped with all the modern facilities. The pupil teachers are given training in food and nutrition, clothing and textiles and home management, flower arrangements, and floor decorations (Rangoli & Alpana).

Language Laboratory:- 

Good pronunciation in the English language, is, ‘sine qua non of the art of communication through speech.  Yet much attention is not paid to this aspect of language learning and teaching in our educational institutions.  Especially in the context where English is learned as a second language, the problem becomes all the more alarming.  The linguistic habits already acquired in learning the mother tongue stand in the way of learning the language and thus hamper proficiency in speaking the language. It is also right to mention here that in English, there is very little correspondence between the orthography (spelling) and the spoken form (phonetics). The 26 letters of the English alphabet are represented by 44 sounds. It is, therefore, essential that the learners of English make a systematic study of the sound system of the language.  It is pertinent to make them understand the fact that no letter in English has a fixed sound value.  So more and more exposure to the English sound systems will lead to teaching and learning accurate English.

Psychology Laboratory:-

The college has a Psychology Laboratory equipped with various psychological tests and equipment. The M.Ed. students and members of the faculty make use of these tests for conducting research. The Training, Placement, and Counselling Cell (TPCC) of the college also utilizes these tests for diagnostic and prognostic purposes.

Science Laboratories:-

There are a number of Science Labs established in the college viz. Physical Science, Life Science, and Home Science. The college has planned to establish a Science Discovery Centre in collaboration with Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Centre, Kurukshetra and Centre for Science Education, NEHU (SHILLONG), and Vikram Sarabhai Community Science Centre, Ahmedabad. Necessary spadework has been undertaken. The college has taken the initiative to establish a Mathematics Laboratory along the lines of the Mathematics Lab established at NCERT, New Delhi.