The DAV institution are the gift of Arya Samaj, a progressive movement founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1875. Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the great path-maker of modern India, led acrusade against the superstitious and pernicious practices that prevailed in contemporary India.

With a view to bring about a balanced and harmonious develpment of the future citizens of this country and to infusing in them the ideals of Vedic Culture and high sense of patriotism, Arya Samaj founded a school at Lahore in 1886 by the name of DAYANAND ANGLO VEDIC SCHOOL. This establised the DAV College Trust & Managment Society, which later set up a network of such educational institutions all over India and abroad