RAJA BALWANT SINGH COLLEGE AGRA (Established in 1940) (Affiliated to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, U.P.) SELF-STUDY REPORT nd 2 NAAC ACCREDITATION CYCLE INDEX S.NO. CONTENTS PAGE NO. 1. PREFACE i-ii 2. A BRIEF HISTORY AND BACKGROUND 1-8 3. SWOC ANALYSIS 9-13 4. SUMMARY 14-24 5. PROFILE OF THE COLLEGE 25-37 6. CRITERION –I: 38-61 CURRICULAR ASPECTS 7. CRITERION II: 62-81 TEACHING – LEARNING AND EVALUATION 8. CRITERION III: 82 -121 RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION 9. CRITERION IV: 122-132 INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES 10. CRITERION V: 133-170 STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION 11. CRITERION VI: 171-193 GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 12. CRITERION VII: 194-201 INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES 13. EVALUATIVE REPORTS OF THE 202-634 DEPARTMENTS 14. POST ACCREDITATION INITIATIVES 635-641 15. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE 642 16. ANNEXURES/ENCLOSURES PREFACE Established in 1885, Raja Balwant Singh College, Agra owes its existence to the munificence of Raja Balwant Singh of Awagarh (Etah) who enabled the institution to grow into one of the oldest and the biggest colleges of Uttar Pradesh. Raja Balwant Singh College, formerly known as Balwant Rajput College, was started with the help of Raja Balwant Singh of Awagarh Estate, in the Etah district of the state of Uttar Pradesh. It started in 1878 as Rajput Boarding House for education and upliftment of Rajputs of India. In 1885, it was upgraded as Balwant Rajput High School with Col. Dobson and Sir E.H. Forsyth as headmasters. The Balwant Educational Society was created to safeguard the interests of the institution. Raja Sahib willed that the president of the Society would be the District Judge of Agra, and that the Civil Surgeon of Agra and District Inspector of Schools, Agra would be a permanent member out of its 21 members. Dr. S.C. Sircar, the famous homoeopath, was its first Indian headmaster. In 1934, Dr. R.K. Singh took over as Principal of Balwant Rajput Intermediate College. He started its expansion and in 1940. Dr. Singh established the Bichpuri Institute of Agriculture at Bichpuri, Agra and a Research Centre of Agriculture at Awagarh Farm in Etah on the 400 acres of land donated by Raja Sahib's grandson. In 1949, Dr. R.K. Singh started the Rural Engineering Institute at Bichpuri. Raja Balwant Singh had also donated more than 100 acres land in Agra for agriculture known as Khandari Farm which was attached to Rajput High School. The present building of R.B.S. Inter College was formerly known as the Nachghar Kothi and was the residence of the Headmaster. The School was run in the present college building. When Dr. R.K. Singh got special preference for Rajputs taken away, this enraged Raja Surya Pal Singh, the son of Raja Balwant Singh, who curtailed major financial help to Balwant Educational Society, divested his funds to Shantiniketan in West Bengal and Kishori Raman College in Mathura. R.B.S. College, Agra has seven faculties -- Arts, Commerce, Education, Science, Agriculture, Engineering and Technology, and Management and Computer Application. There are five campuses -- three in Agra itself and one in each in Bichpuri and Awagarh. The Bichpuri Campus of the college has developed into an institution of advanced learning, training and research: it includes the Rural Institute, the Bichpuri Farm, and departments of Postgraduate studies in agriculture, farm management and extension education in the surrounding villages in liaison with Block level organization. (i) R.B.S. College, Agra is envisioned to be a leader in higher education learning and research in Agriculture, Science, Commerce, Education and Humanities along with extension of technologies through its Krishi Vigyan Kendras situated in Bichpuri and Awagarh. To support this mission, right from the beginning, the College has exhibited much zest and drive to find and employ the best faculty members from all across the country. The college has a remarkable range of research infrastructure and facilities such as well-equipped laboratories, specialized equipments and subscription of national and international journals. The college has been carrying out high quality researches in the All India coordinated research projects of ICAR and DST/DBT/UGC/DAE/ sponsored projects in the fields of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Physics, Seismology, Commerce, Education, Plant Systematics, Chemistry, Political Science, Botany, Instrumentation, Environmental Sciences, (ii) SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 A Brief History and Background The institution now known as Raja Balwant Singh Collage, Agra began as a small boarding house for Rajput boys in 1885 in Bagh Farzana, situated not very far from the present location of the Agra Campus of the College. The idea of the hostel conceived by Thakur Umrao Singh and his brother, Kunwar Naunihal Singh, of Kotla (Now in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh), who made available the outhouse of their residence for the Hostel, which initially had a superintendent and a tutor. Probably affected by the Indian Renaissance of the second half of the nineteenth century, the Kotla brothers felt need for the educational uplift of the Rajput community , so that it could play its role in the new India that was coming in to being . Agra had been the capital of the North-West Provinces till 1868 and had consequently become a big regional centre, especially in education. The city, therefore, was the natural choice for the Rajput educational venture, and it turned out to be the right choice. The Kotla brothers, inspired with a kind of missionary zeal, enlisted the support of other leading zamindars for the fuller realization of their plan. Chief of those who came forward were Raja Baldeo Singh of Awagarh, elder brother or Raja Balwant Singh, Raja Lakshman Singh of Wazirpura (known for his Hindi writings and contribution to Hindi literature and Thakur Lekhraj Singh of Gabhana and Thakur Kalyan Singh of Jalalpur (both places in Aligrah district. The following year, Raja Baldeo Singh purchased the present site of the Campus, measuring 20 acres, for Rs. 13, 000, 00 along with Kothi Nautchghar, the former British Recreation Club now housing the R.B.S. Intermediate College and Banglia. The last was the bungalow of an Englishman named Blunt, to whom sons of noted Indians, including Pandit Rajnath Kunzru, brother of Pt. Hriday Nath Kunzru and for many years Honorary Joint-Secretary of the Balwant Educational Society, used to go to for tuition towards the end of the nineteenth century. In 1880, the lab/building of Botany at Bichpuri was inaugurated by Shri V. V. Giri. In 1887 the Hostel was named the Jubilee Rajput Boarding House in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and formally inaugurated by Sir Auckland Colvin, the then Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces. However, the Boarding House was merely a first step; the need was for an institution that could cater to the educational needs of the community. Consequently, the Boarding House was converted into a Rajput School, which was formally opened in 1899 by Elijah Impey, the commissioner of Agra Division. The men behind the School were Raja Balwant Singh of Awagarh and Raja Rampal Singh Bahadur of Kalakankar in Pratapgarh district,U. P. Soon afterwards, Raja Balwant Singh, who had ascended the throne of Anagram Estate in 1892, took the School under his personal care, showering it with attention, as with funds. He donated a lakh of rupees in 1906 for the construction of proper school buildings, which were completed by the middle of 1913. These buildings consisted of a main central block with hostels on three sides. The construction work was supervised by Thakur Umrao Singh. The school had become something of an obsession with the Raja, who continued to dole out patronage and money for its development. By 1908 the School had come directly under his management and all expenses were met from the coffers of the Awagarh Estate. It was around this time that the Raja made his Will, in the codicil of which he bequeathed a sum of Rs.9, 30, 000, 00 for the maintenance and further expansion of the School, which was renamed Balwant Rajput High School in recognition of the patronage being given to it by Raja Balwant Singh. In 1909, the generous Raja passed away, carrying with him his R.B.S.College,Agra Page 1 SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 unfulfilled dream of seeing the School flower into a College. But just a day before he died, a beginning had been made in this direction with the purchase of a 49-acre farm near Khandari village, about one kilometre from the School. The income from the Farm was to be used for the maintenance of the School, which in due course was envisaged to become a College. The hostel life in the School was very comfortable and the students were well looked after. Delicious food was supplied to the hostellers, the charges being Rs.9.00 a month. Special food was supplied on every Sunday and on festival days. Newspapers and magazines were kept in the common Room. There was a dispensary with a doctor and a compounder attached to it”. In 1918 Sarojini Naidu visited the school and delivered a lecture. Like his father before him, Raja Surya Pal Singh took a personal interest in growth and welfare of the institution. He donated a sum of Rs.153000.00 in 1928 for the development of the institution, which took the first stride to becoming a degree college. He gave large sums to Kishori Raman College, Mathura and Rabindranath Tagore‟s Shantiniketan, revering Tagore as „gurudev‟ and welcoming him to Agra in 1929. For ten years (1923-1932) the team of Raja Surya Pal Singh, Honorary secretary and Dr. S.C. Sarkar, Headmaster ran the Institution with care and efficiency. It was during this period that the Institution became known as a first class semi-military school with residential facilities for the Rajput boys. The daily schedule consisted of physical training in the morning, military drill during the day, games in the evening and target shooting and supervised studies at night, The Institution made academic progress during the period, while financially its position was so sound that it did not need grants from the Government and paid attractive salaries to its staff. The year 1934 marks a turning point in the history of the Institution. That year a young and dynamic man, Ram Karan Singh of Varanasi, was appointed Principal. A restless spirit forever looking for openings and avenues for expansion, Dr. R.K. Singh did the work of a catalytic agent for the institution. No sooner had he settled himself as Principal than he embarked on an ambitious plan of expansion and development that was to convert a small institution in to a mini-university with five teaching faculties, an enrolment of over three thousands students and a teaching staff of over 150 by the time he retired 30 years later. Dr. Singh went ahead with breathless pace: but he could not have done so if he had not received the active support and encouragement of Rao Krishna Pal Singh, a rare soul whose personality bordered on the divine. Tall in stature as in generosity and goodness, it was Rao Sahib, the gentle colossus, who gave full freedom and support and scope to Principal Ram Karan Singh to make use of his imaginative and administrative abilities. Ably supporting Rao Sahib and often deputizing as the Honorary Joint-Secretary of the Trust, was Pandit Rajnath Kunzru, a friend of the Awagarh family. The years 1934-1964, during which Dr. R.K. Singh was the Principal, can be regarded as the years of hectic development, the years of transformation of the institution from school to college to mini-university and the years when the dream of a central Rajput College took the brilliant and glorious shape. In his reminiscences of the growth of the Institution and his association with it over a period of 60 years, the scholar-teacher, Dr. T.R. Sharma, has analysed the years of the partnership of Rao Krishna Pal Singh and Dr. R.K. Singh under eight heads, namely, (1) expansion and diversification of educational curricula; (2) the raising of the college to degree status; (3) better utilisation and improvement of educational facilities; (4) development of the teaching faculty; (5) the change from a community institution to a national institution; (6) the emergence of the Bichpuri Campus; (7) collaboration from the U.S.A; and (8) development of research activity in Agra and Bichpuri. In the first phase of development, the intermediate college was expanded in to a multi- faculty intermediate college. Affiliation in the faculties of Science, Agriculture and R.B.S.College,Agra Page 2 SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 Commerce was obtained between 1935 and 1940. Intermediate classes in Physics and Chemistry began in 1935, in Biology and Agriculture in 1938 and in Commerce in 1940. In the second phase of development, the Intermediate College was raised to the Degree level: but this could be achieved only after a great deal of effort. While the college authorities, led by the Principal, worked tirelessly towards this end, it was well-wishers like Rani Phool Kumari of Sherkot, P.W. Marsh and Dr. Pannalal, who were advisers to the Governor of Uttar Pradesh and Dr. P. Basu, the then Vice-Chancellor of Agra University, who helped crown the efforts of Dr. R.K. Singh and the college authorities with glorious success. Others who helped in the task were Raja Bahadur Kushal Pal Singh of Kotla, Raja Mahendra Man Singh of Bhadawar and Raja Virendra Singh ji and Deva Bahadur of Jagammanpura. Following the granting of affiliation by Agra University, degree classes in Agriculture were started in July 1940. With this the dream of Raja Balwant Singh and of other collaborating rulers of princely estates led by the Maharaja of Kashmir had at long last been realized. The opening of B.Sc. (Ag.) was followed by B.Com in 1942, B.A. in 1944 and B.Sc. in 1947. Also in 1947 were started L.T. Classes which were converted to B.T. in 1960 and to B.Ed. in 1964. It needs mentioning that the College was the first private institution in U.P. to start teachers‟ classes, since until 1947 such classes were held only at the Government Teachers‟ Training College at Allahabad. Simultaneously with the seeking of affiliation for degree classes in the various faculties, affiliation was sought for the post-graduate classes. The first to start were classes in Agricultural Economics in 1945, the college earning the distinction of being the first institution in the country to arrange for the study of the subject at the post-graduate level. This was followed by M.Sc. (Ag.) classes in Agronomy in 1946 and Horticulture and Animal Husbandry and Dairying in 1949. Post-graduate classes in Agricultural Chemistry could commerce only in 1962 and in Agricultural Extension in 1963, by when not only the faculty of Agriculture but all other faculties had achieved post-graduate classes, in Mathematics, Chemistry and Zoology commenced in 1949, in Botany in 1950 and in Physics in 1959. In Arts, Sanskrit was the first to reach post-graduate status in 1946, followed by Political Science and Economics in 1947, Hindi and English in 1949, Geography also in 1949 and Psychology in 1958. M.Com classes began in 1948 and M.Ed. classes in 1960. In 1952, the College started an evening section called Working Men‟s College for the benefit of those who had to break off their studies after the intermediate class to earn their livelihood. Prof. Dwarka Nath of the College of Education (as the faculty of Education of the College was then called) was made the In-charge. A special three-year degree course was taught at the working Men‟s College, which was merged with the main college in July 1975. A large number of students who later occupied high positions graduated through the evening college. The classic example is that of a rickshaw-puller, who after graduation from there, went on to become a librarian at Meerut University. Also with a view to helping unemployed people to further their academic qualification, post-graduation classes in Arts subjects were held in the morning hours, i.e., from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., a practice that continued till 2005. Library facilities were improved and students were encouraged to make use of them. The Library was kept open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and to help study at night electric table lamps were fitted to reading tables. In winter, heating was done in the Reading Hall. The open-shelf system was introduced to enable students to consult books frequently required by them. A large number of Indian and foreign journals were also subscribed to, and in some cases their back numbers were also acquired. To enrich the library, books from India and overseas were procured, as were Government publications. American books were obtained on the advice of the Baker Library of Harvard University of the U.S.A. Direct shipments of American books were also received. In 1945-46 Olive R.B.S.College,Agra Page 3 SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 Reddick, a good friend and well-wisher of the college, helped Prof. Rudra Dutta Singh of the college, then in the U.S.A. to purchase a large number of books through her father and send them to India. Departmental libraries for post-graduate students and students‟ libraries for under-graduates were also set up in several departments. One year‟s sabbatical leave on full pay or two year‟s leave on half pay was given to teachers who wanted to engage themselves in higher studies in India or abroad. The Bichpuri Campus: The Bichpuri Campus, situated 12 km from college on the road to Bharatpur, which came into being in 1943 with the acquisition of the 100-acre Government Farm on a five-year lease, was converted to one of 99 acres in 1949. The State Government wanted to transfer the Farm to any agency that could look after it. This followed the report of an expert committee on the working of Government farms, which recommended that on an experimental basis some farms be handed over to private agencies since they were found to be running at a loss. For Dr. R.K. Singh, who was always on the look-out for new areas of development, it was an opportunity for the expansion of the agricultural wing of the institution: so he seized it. To the 100 acres of this he later added 393 acres of adjacent land acquired from the farmers. But 72 acres of this latter land had to be surrendered in settlement of claims, leaving a total of 421 acres with the college. Of this, 280 acres is under agricultural use and the remaining land had been utilized for educational and residential building and for playgrounds. The acquisition of the land was just the first stage of development of the campus. The second stage began with the transfer of M.Sc. classes in Agronomy and Horticulture to Bichpuri in 1948 and 1951 respectively. Agricultural Economics was transferred in 1959, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany in 1959, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in 1964 and B.Sc. (Ag.) in 1971. M.Sc. (Ag.) classes in Agricultural Chemistry and Agricultural Extension were started at Bichpuri in 1962 and 1963 respectively. On Founder‟s Day, 21 September 1953, Dr. Sampurnanand, Education Minister of U.P., laid the foundation stone of the Shri Balwant Vidyapeeth at Bichpuri. „Balwant Vidyapeeth‟ was the new name proposed to be given to the group of institutions known as Balwant Rajput College, or more appropriately, all the institutions run by the B. R. High School Trust, later the Balwant Educational Society. That plan was in evidence in the 1950s and the early 1960s, but idea of the Balwant Vidhyapeeth as visualized by Dr. R.K. Singh and others with him appears to have receded far in to the distance rather than realized. To return to the subject of development of the Bichpuri Campus, the third stage saw the setting up of the Balwant Vidhyapeeth Rural Institute (B.V.R.I) in 1956 under the scheme of Rural Higher Education of the Government of India. Two diploma courses under the national Council for Higher Education were started at the Institute. These were: (1) Diploma in Rural services, a three-year course after the higher secondary stage, equal to the first degree in Arts of a University; and (2) Diploma in Civil Engineering, a three-year course after High school. In July 1962, the Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Rural Economics and Co-operation, a two-year course after the first university degree, was started. The course was accepted by the Government mainly through the efforts of Dr. Douglas Ensminger, Director of the ford Foundation in India. In July 1971, the Rural Services section of B.V.R.I. was affiliated to Agra University and the Rural Engineering section to the U.P. Board of Technical Education. Both the wings had one Principal till December 1983, when the two were separated and made independent, each with a separate Principal. The American Connection: From the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties of the twentieth century, Bichpuri became synonymous with Indo-American co-operation in the field of education in the private sector. The basis for this co-operation was provided by grants received from the Rockfeller Foundation of the United States of America. The College received $270004.50 through announcements dated August 27, 1956 and June 29, 1958. The R.B.S.College,Agra Page 4 SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 funds made available by the Founding were used as matching contribution for capital grants received from the Union and State Government. A spate of building activity followed the receipt or the grants. The planning for the building, all built in Bichpuri, was done by K.N. Mishra, Chief Engineer, Town and Villages Planning, Uttar Pradesh and S.D. Sane, Chief Architect, Uttar Pradesh. Hostels were constructed for residential students, a set of quarters for teachers and a guest house for visitors named Lakshmi Niketan. Also built were the Junior High School building, a swimming pool, the Engineering workshops, the Rural Higher institute, the Animal Science building and the Library, the Rockefeller funds providing the matching contribution to Rs. 2048860.00 received from the Union Government. The high place the developmental activity occupied in the eyes of the top American Administration is illustrated by the fact that the President of the U.S.A., Dwight David Eisenhower visited Bichpuri on 13 December 1959; the visit was part of his Indian itinerary that year. He was accompanied by Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. This visit was followed by that of U.S. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson on May19, 1961. Johnson travelled by bullock-cart for a while during his Bichpuri visit and laid the foundation stone of the Rural Engineering College, for which a sum of Rs.90000.00 had been provided by the Rockefeller foundation. A meeting was in due course arranged in New York between U.S. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. N.K. Anant Rao, then professor of Agronomy at Bichpuri and later Dean of Agriculture at Pant agar. This meeting was followed by visits to Bichpuri of several officials of the foundation, namely, Wernimont, Flora Rhind, Dr. Cummings and Dr. Guy Baird. Finally, Dr. Harrar himself came with his wife to have a look at the place and the work being done there. The visits underscored the deep interest taken by the Rockefeller foundation in the development of the faculty of Agriculture of the College. Of the projects and buildings at the Bichpuri campus of the College, that came up with the help of the Rockefeller funds, chief were Jawaharlal Library, the soil salinity laboratory and the college of Rural Engineering. The foundation stone of the Jawahar Library was laid on 19 November 1959 and its inauguration was done by K.L. Srimali, then Union Minister of Education on 24 March 1961. The Rockefeller Foundation provided Rs.182000 while Rs.120000 was received from the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. The planning of the library-building was done by Dr. J.K. Metcalf of the Harvard University Library and the college librarian Dr. K.D. Singh. The soil salinity laboratory was established in 1957 with Rockefeller funds and with the active help of Prof. Warren Schoonover, who stayed at Bichpuri for four years under a USAID programme. The laboratory became the nucleus for starting M.Sc. courses in Agriculture Chemistry in July 1962. The U.S Foundation provided visiting professors and English tutors. Among these was Mabelle B. Nardin, a specialist in the teaching of English, who worked from July 1960 to April 1962 with the Department of Education, Dr. Irwin Mahler, who worked with the Department of Psychology during 1962-63 and Dr. Robert Meade in the same department in 1964-65. Dr. W.S. Stewart, Director, State and County Arboretum, Los Angeles, California worked with the Department of Botany. Under the English tutor programme, the Rural Higher Institute got the services of Micke Brenton and Jean Hinson in 1963-65. The U.S. Foundation sponsored Dr. R.P. Sharma to undergo training in the U.S.A. on the methods of teaching English as a foreign Language. A member of the college staff was sent every year to seminars conducted by the Foundation on American history and culture. Under the Canadian University Service Overseas Programme, a number of teachers visited the college for short periods. By the time Dr. R. K. Singh retried on June30, 1964 after serving Principal for 30 years, he had elevated a little-known intermediate college to one of the foremost institutions R.B.S.College,Agra Page 5 SELF STUDY REPORT 2016 of higher learning in the country, whose alumni occupied coveted posts, especially in the field of agriculture in all parts of the world. A great visionary, Dr. Singh dreamed of converting the College into a university and worked for it till the very last years of his life. Even as late as 1984, when he was around 80 years of age, he prepared a plan for the encompassment of the College and all other institutions run by the Balwant Educational Society within the framework of a deemed university. The plan was sent by the Managing Committee of the College for approval to the University Grants Commission. Dr. R. K. Singh, whom Dr. Tulsi Ram Sharma in his brochure on the history of the College calls “the main architect of the whole range of developments”, was succeeded by Dr. Shiv Narain Singh as Principal. He had joined the College as a teacher in 1940 and was the first Head of the Post-graduate Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. He had done much work in the field of animal nutrition and earned international plaudits for his research. As an administrator, he had shown his skills while looking after the Bichpuri Campus right from its inception. Dr. S.N. Singh began the process of demolition of these sheds and construction of proper classrooms. Dr. Roshan Singh, his successor ventured on a more extensive construction plan at Agra. In July 1971, Dr. Roshan Singh, who had first joined the college in July 1948 as a teacher and later served as Head successively of the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Extension, become Principal. It was during his tenure that fuller attention was paid to the Agra Campus. The Commerce Wing, the Science Wing, one lecture theatre and three other rooms were constructed. A gymnasium was built in the open space in front of Block 3 of the College hostel in 1975 and named after Rao Krishna Pal Singh. It was in Dr. Roshan Singh‟s period of service that a new campus of the College came in to being at Awagarh in Etah district, some 60 km from Agra and the seat of the erstwhile Awagarh Estate. The creation of the campus in 1976 was the result of the allotment of 321acres of land, earlier belonging to Raja Surya Pal Singh to the college, by the state Government for purpose of agricultural extension work and training of farmers. A Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Agriculture Science Centre) was established on the campus from grants received from ICAR. A building to house the centre was constructed at a cost of Rs. 4.5 lakhs and residences for the staff built at a cost of Rs.4.00 lakhs. Some 150 acres was brought under cultivation and called Awagarh farm, with a manager overseeing the farming operations. While the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, where training is given to farmers of the region in new methods of cultivation, is maintained by the Central Government through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the farm is under the direct control of the college. During Dr. Roshan Singh‟s period of leave, Dr. Madhusudan Singh, Head of the Department of Geography, officiated as Principal from September 7, 1984 to July 12, 1985 when Dr. R.P Tiwari, Head of the Department of English of the college, was appointed Principal after being selected to the post by the State Higher Education Services Commission. During Dr. Tiwari term, the Centenary of the Institution was celebrated with the installation of a bronze bust of the Founder, Raja Balwant Singh in the Jawahar Library at Bichpuri and a marble one in front of the Library at Agra. The statue at Agra was unveiled by the then Union Minister for Steel, K.C. Pant, who also addressed the centenary convocation the same day, 4 April 1986. On Dr. Tiwari‟s resignation, Dr. Madhusudan Singh again took over as officiating Principal, retaining that position till January 31, 1988, his date of retirement, when Dr. Ravi Chandra Rai, Head of the Department of Physics and the senior-most teacher of the college took over. Dr. Rai handed over the charge to Dr. Jawahar Singh Dhakre on June 26, 1989 on R.B.S.College,Agra Page 6