The Higher Education Review

Dr. Arvind Agarwal, the President of ARYA Group of Colleges, Jaipur is a Medico Engineer and an Eminent Personality with the vast horizon of vision and mission. By Qualification, he is Medicine Doctor and meritoriously completed his MBBS from the University of Calcutta. He thereafter served and practiced prominent organizations like Willingdon Hospital in Delhi and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), in New Delhi for a couple of years.

Dr. Puja Agarwal, Vice-President

A Gold Medalist in LLB from Punjab University, Dr. Agarwal is an eminent Scholar and a Highly Qualified Academician across India. After completing her graduation (double) in Commerce and Law and her Masters in Business Administration, she continued her education in Stockholm University, Sweden and represented India as a law student in School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London. At present she is serving as the Vice President of Arya Group of Colleges and she regularly mentors faculties and students there. She is also the Chairperson of Women Empowerment Cell at The Employer's Association of Rajasthan (EAR) and anchor's a TV show 'Nayi Chunotiya' on DD Rajasthan. Recently, she has been awarded for "Best Winning Startup ­ 2018" by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Smt. Vashundhra Raje. Her social activities reflect in her work for Akshay Patra Foundation for mid-day meal and deaf and dumb school.

The brainchild behind establishing the first Private engineering college in Alwar, Rajasthan, Late Er.TK Agarwal had recognized the thrust of the aspirant engineers of the state who used to relocate to other cities for obtaining engineering degrees. Later, after receiving an overwhelming response from the students and different stakeholder of education, Late Er.TK Agarwal went on to involve his son Dr. Arvind Agarwal, who was then pursuing M.D psychiatry from Boston University-USA, in running the institute. Dr. Arvind's explicit guidance and direction, gave a new direction to his father's vision, in the form of initiation of Arya Group of Colleges in the year 2000 under the aegis of All India Arya Samajis Society for Higher & Technical Education. Housed amidst the captivating Aravali's in Jaipur- the Pink City, Arya educational campus is endowed with a perfect learning environment along with world-class facilities.

Spread across 30 acres of beautiful landscape, Arya educational campus is the place where students are welcomed with open arms for utilizing the resources that the campus is incorporated with, such as smart classrooms, Student Development Cell, two-storey Auditorium with 900 plus sitting capacity, library with more than 28000 Books and Journals, 120 state of art labs, hostels and many more. "With our several first-of-its-kind initiatives, Arya Group of Colleges always gains lots of media attention and becomes the talk of the town. From setting up the first Incubation Centre to having established first Free Open Source Software (FOSS) center in the state of Rajasthan with the collaboration of IIT Bombay and starting the exclusive TCS-Ion certified labs in Rajasthan, we have always strived to stay unique," proudly says Dr. Arvind Agarwal, President, Arya Group of Colleges. Affiliated to RTU, the Arya Group of Colleges consists of 5 colleges, offering courses in various disciplines, like Engineering, Pharmacy, Commerce and Arts.

The Alma-mater of Diverse Alumni
With an alumni base of 18000 + students, Arya Group holds the rich legacy and reputation that it has earned through manifesting quality education. "Till date, we have placed over 13,500 students and this figure itself proves the kind of efforts that we put in grooming the future leaders," claims Dr. Arvind Agarwal. Each year the students get to seat in the campus placement where prominent recruiters from 60+ companies such as TCS, Infosys, IBM, HCL and so on, visits the campus. Dr. Arvind Agarwal adds, "We have been conducting a centralized drive for Indian Army & Indian Air Force (IAF) for last six years covering the whole Rajasthan and neighboring states too."

The institute has a highly dedicated professional team of members, compromising TPO's, Placement

Executives and faculty members, who work round the clock to ensure students matches the expectations of the industry. The faculty members also keep a check while delivering education by upgrading the teaching pedagogies and methodologies. "Arya Group of Colleges has a close association with a number of organizations ranging from MSME to Microsoft, Bhartiya Skill Development University, CISCO and Oracle to international bodies like AICET, Russian Universities in Siberia & United States Universities," says Dr. Arvind Agarwal. Broadening the horizon of skilling the students, the institute has registered with Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PMKVY) as a center for Skill Development. Additionally, to provide students ample exposure, the Arya Group of Colleges organizes a National Level Technical Symposium called 'Shradhanjali', where students from all over nation participate enthusiastically.

Being holding the status of pioneer in several activities, the Arya Group's campus has placed the Arya's Advanced Robotics Lab, the only lab in North India which consists of Humanoids, Live Projects, Tribots, Flexibots, Simulation projects like Sudoku and Rubik Cube Solver. Dr. Arvind Agarwal adds, "This list will remain incomplete if we don't mention about Chip Mounting Machines (SMT Machines) and 3-D Printer that is only present in our college in the entire Rajasthan for enabling students' perform real-time core engineering functions." Under the mentorship and leadership of Dr. Arvind Agarwal, the students of Arya Group of Colleges owing to their excellent business ideas have been listed in the top 10 startups of Rajasthan and awarded by Honorable Chief Minister of Rajasthan for the same. To fuel up the entrepreneurship spirit of the students, the institute recently has sent 5 of its students to visit Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Facebook under Student Startup Exchange Programme which was fully funded by Dept of Information Technology - Government of Rajasthan. "The Arya Group of Colleges' associations' such global giants is a testimony of its technical reach in the industry. The brand 'ARYA' ensures the graduates to get an edge in the job market as well as in the start-up ecosystem," concludes Dr. Arvind Agarwal.