Central Delhi is an administrative district in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the district is bounded by the river Yamuna to the east, by the district of North Delhi to the North, by New Delhi to the South, South West Delhi and West Delhi to the West. The district of central Delhi is spread over an area of 25 km2 and the population density of the district is more than 25000 people per kms2.

Higher Education in Central Delhi:

When it comes to higher education in central Delhi there are constituent units of the University of Delhi that are functioning under the control of the Delhi Government and the names of these government colleges functioning from Central Delhi and some of their details are given below:

• Zakir Hussain Delhi College

• Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped

• Mata Sundri College for Women

• Lady Irwin College

Zakir Hussain Delhi College:

Zakir Hussain Delhi College is a constituent unit of the University of Delhi and the college is functioning separately as a morning college and as an evening college as well. The college offers UG and PG courses in the faculties of humanities, commerce and science and most of the courses offered by the college at UG level are honors courses. Some of the subjects offered by the college at the UG level are Urdu, Sanskrit, psychology, political science, philosophy, Persian, mathematics, history, Hindi, English, Economics, Bengali, Arabic, physical sciences, life sciences, zoology, mathematics, electronics, chemistry and botany. Admission of students to this college will be based on the merit list prepared by the University of Delhi.

Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped:

This institution is working under the control of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment of the Indian Government and it offers several long-term and short-term courses. the list of courses offered by the institute is given below:

Short-term Courses: Short-term courses are offered by the institute in the form of training programmes for updating the knowledge of professionals and personnel working in the field of rehabilitation. Orientation and awareness programmes are conducted for making different groups of people aware of the causes and prevention of disabilities, vocational, educational, social, medical requirements of disabled.

Long-term courses: The list of course offered by the institute is as follows:

• Bachelor of Physical Therapy

• Bachelor of Occupational Therapy

• Bachelor of Prosthetics & orthotics

Mata Sundri College for Women:

This is also a constituent unit of the Delhi University offering Bachelor of Arts (general) in a number of subjects, Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, political science, philosophy, psychology, history, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi and English and Bachelor of Commerce (hons. & general). In addition, the institute also offers Master of Arts in political science, Hindi, Sanskrit and Punjabi.

Lady Irwin College:

Lady Irwin College is a popular name in the higher education scenario of University of Delhi and the college offers B. Sc (P & H) in Home Science, B. Ed, M. Sc Home Science in different specializations and even Ph. D in Home Science specially meant for women students.