A grant-in-aid affiliated private nonprofit arts and commerce college in Mandvi, Surat, Gujarat, serving a tribal community.
Babubhai B. Avichal Arts And Commerce College is a grant-in-aid affiliated private nonprofit college located opposite the Telephone Office on Kim Road, Mandvi, Surat district, Gujarat 394160. The college was established on 01/10/1986 by the trust Saraswati Van Vidhya Mandal, which was established in 1985. Its vision is to develop higher college education in the backward area of Mandvi Taluka, which is dominated by the tribal community, who make up about 93% of the area's population.
The college started with 184 students, and in 2008 it had 2000 students enrolled. The tribal sub-plan office Mandvi allotted the land for the college building. The college was transferred to a new campus on 01-05-2005. Dr. P.M. Jalsanwala was appointed as Principal from 24-03-2006.
The college aims to provide undergraduate and postgraduate instruction in the faculties of Arts and Commerce, and aims to deliver quality education in the tribal area. It offers a postgraduate course in Hindi, which started in 1996 after sanction by Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. The college is also recognized as a center of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahmedabad, for various computer courses. In the UG programme, one gold medal was achieved in the History Department in 1998.
The college has a computer centre and a computer lab. It moved to a new campus on 01-05-2005.
The college lists an admission procedure on its website.