The foundation stone of the huge palatial building of this school was laid on 18 November 1912 by Sir Luious Dane, Governor of the Punjab on the outskirts of habitation of Gujranwala.

However, this period also witnessed some tragic events – the Jalianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar and riots in Gujranwala in reaction thereto, imposition of martial law and bombardment of Khalsa School Boarding House and the playgrounds.

In such circumstances, the management was hard pressed to get the college disaffiliated from the Punjab University, Lahore, and allow therein the launch of Basic Education programme based on vocational/skill training, as advocated by Mahatma Gandhi.

S. Jeet Singh Chawla, Honorary Secretary (1941–61), Khalsa Educational Council, Gujranwala hurriedly managed to collect the land documents as also the FDRs from the bank lockers.

As soon as they could arrange shelters for their families in various towns of present Punjab/Delhi after reaching India, they started search for collaborators/suitable site to rehabilitate the college.

A claim was filed for the property left at Gujranwala, which was admitted for Rs.35,91,000, but only the sum of Rs.2,44,000 was received as a rehabilitation grant to start afresh.

A huge bungalow with ten rooms and two big grassy lawns (no longer visible) was purchased to house offices/classrooms in the first instance.

There are smart class rooms and big halls in a three-story building for ever-expanding Computer Science laboratories to cater to especially the BCA and the PGDCA programmers and for the students enrolled in conventional courses.