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D. J. Sindh Government Science College

public community college in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5203665 ↗
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D.J. Sindh Government Science College (Sindhi: ڊي جي سنڌ ڪاليج ڪراچي , Urdu: ڈی جے سندھ گورنمنٹ سائنس کالج), is a public college, affiliated with the University of Karachi. It was named after the philanthropist Diwan Dayaram Jethmal and is located near Burns Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

History

The college was founded by the Viceroy of India Lord Dufferin on 19 November 1887 and was originally called Sind Arts college.

In 1889-90, Doulatram Jethmal and Bulchand Dayaram, donated an amount of Rs. 25,000 on a set of conditions one of which being that the college be called Dayaram Jethmal Sind College.

Premises

The college has the following premises:

The Main Building is divided into two main parts. One new portion houses the offices of the principal, superintendent as well as the college administration. In this portion are the departments of Urdu and Statistics on the ground floor and the departments of Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies on the first floor. The oldest portion of the main building has the departments of Biochemistry, Botany, English & Physics in the ground floor, department of Chemistry, Computer Science & Microbiology and some classrooms in the first floor and department of Zoology in the second floor.

A. Q. Block has only classrooms; they are specially for first year.

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“D. J. Sindh Government Science College” enters the record as public community college in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sindh, Government and Science can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5203665. VIAF identifies the subject as 181764522. The Library of Congress control number is no2011135811. Authority coordinates are 24.853, 67.014. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887 and 1889.

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