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Friday, February 20, 2009

EDUCATION FACILITIES

The city has 14 anganwadis and 63 primary schools.There are many schools from the British era. Some of the popular schools in the city are: Bishop Cotton School, Shimla Public School, St Edwards School, Tara Hall, Hainault Public School, DAV Lkr Bazaar, DAV New Shimla, Auckland House School, Dayanand Public School,St.Beats(girls)and Himalayan Internation School at Chharabra.

The medical institutes in Shimla are Indira Gandhi Medical College and Dental college. St. Bedes and Rajkiya Kanya MahaVidayaliya (RKMV) are girls-only colleges.

Government College Sanjauli, and Government College Chaura Maidan are also located in the city. The Indian Institute of Advanced Study, housed in the Viceregal Lodge, is a residential center for research in Humanities, Indian culture, religion, and social and natural sciences. The Himachal Pradesh University is also based in Shimla.

UIIT (University Institute of Information Technology), a premier institute to provide technical education in the state is located here. Shimla has two state libraries with a collection of over 47,000 old books divided between them. The one at Gandhi Bhavan in the University has over 40,000 books and the other library, also a heritage building on the ridge, has 7000.Other institutes of higher education and research located in Shimla are the Central Potato Research Institute, a member of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and (NAAA)National Academy of Audit and Accounts for training of officers of the Indian Audit and Accounts services (IA&AS).

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