Indira Gandhi College of Arts And Science

Puducherry is already known as �Hardware capital of India�. Almost all the majors in the Hardware industry such as Lenovo, Acer, WIPRO, HCL, HP have set up their unit in Puducherry. The Directorate of Higher & Technical Education of Puducherry, was bifurcated from the erstwhile Directorate of Education to set up a separate establishment for dealing with the matters pertaining to the Higher Education. The Government of Puducherry, to impart quality higher education has established various colleges in the Government sector and also under various Societies. Two Societies namely Union Territory of Pondicherry Colleges of Education Society (UTPCES) and the Union Territory of Pondicherry Arts Science and Technology Colleges Society (UTPASTCS) were formed in the year 2000 and 2001 respectively. The former society was formed to impart Teaching Education Technology to the youth of this Union Territory and the latter for teaching arts and science courses. In view of the similar administrative and financial functioning of these Societies the Government have since amalgamated these Societies into one and named it as �PONDICHERRY SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (PONSHE)� which was registered on 15.03.2007 with registration No. 397 of 2007 under Societies Act and functioning under the Chairmanship of the Hon�ble Minister for Higher Education.