New Delhi: Zakir Hussain College of the Delhi University (DU), situated on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, has been given a new name. The college would now be known as Zakir Hussain Delhi College.

The college is the oldest educational institution in Delhi. The decision to modify the name was taken on Monday at a meeting of the Zakir Hussain College Memorial Trust chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

The institution had been established in the 1700s by the first Nizam of Hyderabad and was known as Madrassa Ghaziuddin. Its earlier campus near Ajmeri Gate that was established in 1948 had been known by the name Delhi College but was renamed Zakir Hussain College after it had been taken over by the trust in 1975.

Recently, both the alumni as well as the staff of the college had been demanding that the word 'Delhi' be added to the college's name to honor its history.