DELHI SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK [DSSW]

The DSSW traces its origin to the establishment of the Y.W.C.A School of Social Work in 1946 at Lucknow. It was then known as the National YWCA School of Social Work. The school which started under the directorship of Ms. Nora Ventura (Secretary of Religious Education Committee of the YWCA) initially had only two students enroled in it. In the following year it was decided to move the school to Delhi at 3, University Road in the Air force Barracks with the efforts of Ms. Elmina Lucke (Director at DSSW) and the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, Sir Maurice Gwyer. The school was shifted to Delhi in 1947 and on its affiliation to the University of Delhi, in 1948; it came to be known as Delhi School of Social Work. In the initial period the school was governed by a Board, the members of which came from all parts of India. After becoming part of the University of Delhi, in April 1961, the Department started functioning as a Post-Graduate Institution, affiliated to the Uni...