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| The Rajkumar college, Rajkot, GJ. .gujarattourism.com |
India has lots of pretty old schools established in the early 19th century CE. With exceptions most of them were founded by the Christian missionaries to impart education to the European community and also to the local people. They engaged in educational activities in the midst of their evangelical work in the nook and corner of India. There were many schools established by the rich Indians to cover the native of various communities. Among them there were some schools founded by the princely families to exclusively educate their children so that they could get better education and be trained to run the princely states. One of the reputed schools is Rajkumar college of Rajkot, Gujarat.
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| Rajkot location map. .mapsofindia.com |
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| Rajkumar college, Rajkot, GJ. rkcrajkot.com |
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| Rajkumar college, CBSC residential school.kcrajkot.com |
Set on a huge land comprising 26-acre (105,000 m²) campus in the prime area of Rajkot, the building was designed by Colonel Keatinge and was formally opened by the Governor of Bombay Presidency, H. B. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald in 1870. It is mentioned that the size of campus has been reduced to 11 acres presently and it includes besides college buildings, housing sporting facilities, offices, etc.
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| Rajkumar college, Rajkot, GJ.kcrajkot.com |
The college became a public school in 1938, thanks to the efforts made by founding members. The college motto is Yasya Bhuddhi, Balam Tasya meaning "Power is where there is knowledge". Another plus is it is a founding member of the Indian Public Schools Conference and a member of the Round Square conference of schools, a worldwide association of more than 60 schools. The latter encourages students to travel between schools and tour the country or do community service, thus giving them wide exposure outside the realm of education.
It was in 2001 the college, for the first time, encouraged co-education opening its doors wide open for aspiring girls. Earlier, it had been a boys' domain for more than 100 years. The school had around 50 girls initially with boarding facilities. With the expansion of school and its reputation on the increase more girls showed interest in joining RKC, the Rajkumar College for Girls, a secondary school was opened on 24 March 2011 by Kamla Beniwal, Governor of Gujarat.
The Rajkumar College Administration runs what is called ''Priyalok Villas'', a pre-school program for the kids; it in 1909 functioned in Hyde sanatorium and now it has a separate building. The advantage is it has access to all the facilities available at the Rajkumar College.
This college gives importance to sports and their teams actively participate in inter public school competitions at district/ /state/national level events. Likewise students are encouraged to play an active role in various cultural activities, public speaking /recitation/debates, etc. Besides improving their academic potential, the school focuses on their creativity, interpersonal relationship and personality development through service.
Once the students successfully passed out the portals of the school, they are well trained to take on further challenges at the college level, this way the school prepares them at the early stage itself to confront problems in public life, personal life and in the work-space.
Tit-bits:
The 27 members (hailing from royal families) of the prestigious college recently ( 3rd week of Sept. 2021) conducted an election to the Board of Trustees . Surprisingly, it was an inconclusive one as the polling resulted in tie on five out of seven seats on Sunday with the election officer saying that his office would approach the Gujarat High Court for further directions.
Polling for the four seats of ‘A’ Group comprising 11 large erstwhile princely states in Saurashtra as well as to the three seats of ‘B’ Group comprising 10 smaller erstwhile princely states was conducted at RKC campus from 9 am to 5 pm.
https://www.gujarattourism.com/saurashtra/rajkot/rajkumar-college.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkumar_College,_Rajkot
