The BNS DAV institutions are the gifts of arya Samaj, a progressive movement founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1875, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, great path maker of modern India, led a crusade against the superstitious and pernicious practices that prevailed in contemporary India.
With a review to bring about a balanced and harmonious development of the future citizens of this country and to infuse in them, the ideals of Vedic and high sense of patriotism, Arya Samaj founded a school at Lahore in 1886 by the name of DAYANAND ANGLOVEDIC SCHOOL.This established the BNS D.A.V. College Trust & Management Society, which later set up a network of such educational institutions all over India.
"His Description of the ideal society and state has always included references to a prosperous economy, abolition of poverty, just distribution of wealth and education and satisfying occupation for all men according to their abilities.