Jamia Hamdard

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name = Jamia Hamdard


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established = 1989
Founder = Hakeem Abdul Hameed
type = Public, Deemed University
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chancellor = Mr. Saiyid Hamid
vice_chancellor = Dr. S. Ahmad
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city = New Delhi
state = Delhi
country = India
campus = Urban
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affiliations = UGC
website = [http://www.jamiahamdard.edu www.jamiahamdard.edu]

Jamia Hamdard is a university located in New Delhi, India. It offers was established in 1989.

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Accredited by NAAC in 'A' grade.

History

In 1906, a small Unani clinic was established by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, one of the well-known practitioners of Unani System of Medicine of his time. He had a vision of making the practice of Unani Medicine into a scientific discipline, so that Unani medicines could be dispensed in a more efficacious manner to patients. He gave the name "Hamdard" to his venture which means "sympathy for all and sharing of pain".

On 22 Shawwal, 1367 Hijri (1948 August 28), Hamdard - which was a commercial enterprise at that time - was converted into a waqf, with the aim of giving effect to Islamic teachings of public charity including health and education. In 1964, Hamdard National Foundation was created to receive and disburse the profits earned by Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories. It was to take up charitable causes in the areas of education, medical relief and the advancement of knowledge.

The son of Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, Hakeem Abdul Hameed, purchased land in Tughlaqabad, area of South Delhi. He and his Muslim associates established several institutions for teaching and research there.

In 1962, Hakeem Abdul Hameed set up the Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, to promote education and research in the history of medicine.

In 1963, Hakeem Abdul Hameed and his Muslim friends and associates set up Indian Institute of Islamic Studies, to promote the study of Islamic culture and civilization, especially its contribution to Indian society and culture.

In 1963, Hamdard Tibbi College was set up in Gali Qasim Jaan, Old Delhi. It was later shifted to Jamia Hamdard Campus in 1980 to provide education in Unani Medicine, so that it could be largely available in Arabic and Persian.

In 1972, Hamdard College of Pharmacy was set up with the objective of providing education and training in all branches of pharmacy.

Jamia Hamdard was given the status of Deemed University, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, on 1989 May 10. All the above named institutions were combined into Jamia Hamdard.

The contribution of Hakeem Abdul Hameed to promote education, health and social service was acknowledged by the Government of India when he was awarded Padma Shri in 1965, and the Padma Bhushan in 1991.

Faculties

Graduate programmes in Information Technology and Computer Applications and post-graduate programmes in Information Technology, Computer Applications, Business Management, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy have been started in the last few years. Undergraduate programmes in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy are being introduced from this year.

Faculties include:
* [http://www.hamdardpharm.org/ Pharmacy]
*Science
*Medicine (Unani)
*Nursing
*Allied Health Sciences
*Management Studies & IT
*Islamic Studies & Social Sciences.

Campus facilities

Library

The library system consists of central library and six faculty libraries: the faculties of science, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, Islamic studies, and management studies and information technology. The central library is named ‘Hakim Mohammed Said Central Library’, after the younger brother of the founder Hakeem Abdul Hamid.

Computer centre

The University's has computer centre has computers, computing facilities, and system analysis units, as well as all necessary peripherals and requisite software. There are five different laboratories in the computer centre, with facilities for their respective development fields.

Convention Center

Jamia Hamdard has a Conference and Convention Centre to provide a centre for meetings between people of similar interests and pursuits.

cholars' House

The Scholars' House is a guest house for accommodating scholars, University guests, outside examiners, members of the selection board, and residential conferences.

It has 12 double-bed air-conditioned rooms, 18 single-bed air-conditioned rooms, 9 single-bed air-cooled rooms, and 4 flats with 4 air-conditioned rooms. Rooms with living room, dining room and a small lounge equipped with telephone, TV, fridge, kitchenette, and an attendant.

The kitchen also serves to doctors of Majeedia Hospital, and to outsiders upon request.

Majeedia Hospital

Majeedia Hospital is a recognised hospital in the modern and the Unani system of medicine. It houses 150 beds for the patients. Free OPD facilities are provided to University students, and to the teaching and non-teaching staff and their family members. The hospital also caters to the training of the students of Faculty of Medicine (Unani) and Faculty of Nursing.

Central Instrumentation Facility ( [http://www.hamdardpharm.org/cif.asp CIF] )

Central Instrumentation Facility was established in July 1990 with the installation of L7 Backman Ultra-centrifuge, Sorval Rt-6000 low speed centrifuge, DU-64 Backman UV-VIS Spectrometer, Perkin-Elmer 8700 Gas Chromatograph, Perkin-Elmer HPLC and Mettler electronic balance. In year 1992, gamma-counter, beta-counter and DNA Electrophoresis systems were added to the CIF. Recently, Perkin-Elmer Lambda-20 Double-beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Perkin-Elmer LS-50 luminescence spectrometer, Bio-rad FT-IR spectrometers and mini-computer facility comprising of eight computers, Internet and e-mail facilities have been included in CIF.

The objective of CIF is to provide state-of-art sophisticated instrumentation facility to the researchers of Jamia Hamdard, in addition, to train the Ph.D. and M.Pharm/M.Sc.. students on various equipment. Jamia Hamdard research students operate instruments themselves for their experiments. This training strengthens their theoretical concept and makes them confident in facing interviews for jobs and carryout post doctoral research work. Many Ph.D. students, use CIF during late hours and on week ends to complete their experiments. Nearly 50 Ph.D. students and more than 150 M.Pharm. students have used CIF during 1990-1999.

Residential facilities

Jamia Hamdard is giving full residential facilities for the staff and students.

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Jamia Hamdard is providing residential facilities to its teaching and non-teaching staff, both in and outside campus.

There are nine residential blocks in the campus which are meant for residence of all categories of the teaching and non-teaching employees.

Hostel

Jamia Hamdard has separate girls' and boys' hostels. Every hostel has a common room, reading room, dining hall, and visitors’ room. Number of hostels are as follows:

* 2 UG girls hostels
* 1 PG girls hostel.
* 1 UG boys hostel
* 2 PG boys hostels
* 1 International boys hostel

However not all boy students can get admission to hostel on account of shortage of accommodation.

ports

A gymnasium has been constructed with the assistance of University Grants Commission and Hamdard National Foundation in 1999. Besides, playgrounds for cricket/football, tennis, volleyball, basketball and badminton (both for girls and boys) are available.

Canteen

The university has three canteens which are partially subsidised and are run by contractors. They provide tea, coffee and light snacks.

Mosque

The campus of Jamia Hamdard has a grand mosque named as Masjid-Rabia. Local people also observe prayers there on Friday and other occasions. In order to facilitate worshippers, water supply, electric fans, loud speakers etc. are provided. About 1200 people can perform prayers under the covered area of the mosque. Beside Rabia Mosque there are three separate mosques under three hostels are available.

Foreign nationals

The University welcomes foreign nationals who are good in academics and have secured good marks in equivalent qualifying examinations. Preference will be given to candidates who have secured good percentile in SAT/GMAT/GRE examinations.

Foreign Student’s Cell

Foreign Student Cell look after the rights and benefits of foreign students. Jamia Hamdard has a numerous number of foreign students. Foreign Students' Advisor looks after the affairs of foreign students. Various cultural and social event are also organized by the cell every year.

Placement activities

The university organizes placement activities for its students and a large number of companies visit the campus like Aricent, Tech Mahindra, Hewlett Packard, Sapient, Perot Systems, Impetus, Computer Sciences Corporation, American Express, TCS, ICICI Bank, Cipla, Sun Pharma, Lupin, Dr. Reddy’s Labs, Ranbaxy, Max Newyork Life Insurance, Maruti Udyog, HCL Technologies and many more.

Hamdard Study Circle

A premier coaching institute founded by late Janab Hakeem Abdul Hameed Saheb in 1992 for preparing students of weaker section of society, particularly Muslims, for Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission.

The Circle provides coaching for all the three stages of the Civil Services Examination, viz Preliminary Examination, Main Examination and Personality Test. Hamdard Study Circle has excellent boarding and lodging facilities, a well-equipped library, internet facility, office complex, recreation room, a modern dining hall and kitchen housed in the 14-acre sprawling campus of Talimabad in South Delhi. There is no fee charged for coaching but students are required to pay Rs. 800/- per month for the maintenance of the hostel and amenities and Rs. 850/- per month for meals. Stipends to deserving students of Minority, OBC and SC/ST Categories are available through a Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment grant.

Admission strictly on merit basis through a competitive test held at New Delhi, Patna, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram on 3rd Sunday of November each year for Prelim Examination Coaching and at New Delhi in the last week of July in the following year for the Main Examination Coaching. Admission for Personality Test Coaching is made through Personal Interview in last week of March each year. Total intake up to 10 girls and 50 boys. So far 161 candidates have qualified for various Civil Services from Hamdard Study Circle.

Alumni community

"Jamham" is an alumni community of the students of Dept. of Computer Science. It has found great success and has become a hub of activities for alumni and current students.

References

* [http://www.jamiahamdard.edu/ University official site]
* [http://www.jamiahamdard.ac.in/ Jamia Hamdard]
* [http://www.hamdardpharm.org/ Faculty of Pharmacy]
* [http://www.jamiahamdard.edu/campplace.asp Placements]

External links

* [http://www.jamiahamdard.edu/ University official site]
* [http://www.jamiahamdard.ac.in/ Jamia Hamdard]
* [http://www.jamham.com/ Computer Science Alumni]
* [http://www.hamdardpharm.org/ Faculty of Pharmacy]