Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya is a Central University located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.It is one of the largest and oldest institution of higher education of Chhattisgarh. Established under Central Universities Act 2009, No. 25 of 2009. Formerly known as Guru Ghasidas University (GGU), established by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly, was formally inaugurated on June 16, 1983. GGV is an active member of the Association of Indian Universities and Association of Commonwealth Universities. The National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) has accredited the University as B+ . Situated in a socially and economically challenged area, the university is appropriately named to honor the great Satnami Saint Guru Ghasidas (born in the 17th century), who championed the cause of the downtrodden and waged a relentless struggle against all forms of social evils and injustice prevailing in the society. It was named after Guru Ghasidas, the founder of the Satnami movement in the region. The jurisdiction of the university is spread across the Bilaspur Revenue Division. It covers almost the entire spectrum of the higher education requirements of the local people. It has several University Teaching Department (UTDs) on its campuses.

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
Mottogyan path kripan ki dhara
TypeCentral University
Established1983 (1983)
ChancellorDr. Ashok Gajanan Modak
Vice-ChancellorAnjila Gupta
Location
Bilaspur
,
Chhattisgarh
,
India

22.1293°N 82.1360°E / 22.1293; 82.1360
CampusUrban
AffiliationsUGC
Websitewww.ggu.ac.in

History

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya established as 9th state university of undivided Madhya Pradesh on 16 June 1983 by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly. The university is named to honor the great Satnami Saint Guru Ghasidas (1756–1850), who championed the cause of the downtrodden and waged a relentless struggle against all forms of social evils and injustice prevailing in the society. GGU upgraded into a Central University under Central Universities Act 2009, No. 25 of 2009 with the name of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya.

The moto of the University has taken from Uttarakanda of Sri Ramchritmanas after Doha number 118 (B).
चौपाई:-
ग्यान पंथ कृपान कै धारा। परत खगेस होइ नहिं बारा॥
जो निर्बिघ्न पंथ निर्बहई। सो कैवल्य परम पद लहई॥1॥
भावार्थ:- ज्ञान का मार्ग कृपाण (दोधारी तलवार) की धार के समान है। हे पक्षीराज! इस मार्ग से गिरते देर नहीं लगती। जो इस मार्ग को निर्विघ्न निबाह ले जाता है, वही कैवल्य (मोक्ष) रूप परमपद को प्राप्त करता है॥1॥

Campus

Guru Ghasidas University campus spread over an area of 700 acres (2.8 km2), five kilometres from the main Bilaspur town. River Arpa runs parallel to the university campus.

Residential student halls

GGV is a non-residential institution.[1] There are only three hostels at GGV, two for boys and one for girls. Hostels have facilities as vegetarian mess, gymnasium, play grounds, reading room, TV room etc. There is Internet Facility in Hostels. They have a good academic environment for students. Faculty members of university act as wardens for supervision of them.

Organisation and administration

The university is structured into the following academic divisions:

  1. Anthropology & Tribal Development
  2. Biotechnology
  3. Botany
  4. Chemistry
  5. Commerce
  6. Computer Science & IT
  7. Economics
  8. Education
  9. English
  10. Forensic Science
  11. Forestry, Wild Life & Environment Sc.
  12. Hindi
  13. History
  14. Institute of Technology
  15. Journalism & Mass Communication
  16. Law
  17. Library & Information Science
  18. Management
  19. Pharmacy
  20. Physical Education
  21. Pure & Applied Mathematics
  22. Pure & Applied Physics
  23. Political Sc. & Public Administration
  24. Rural Technology
  25. Social Work
  26. Zoology

School of Studies in Engineering and Technology
Institute of Technology
Main article: Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas University

Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas University (IT-GGV) is a Constituent institution of Guru Ghasidas University. It was established in 1997. Currently, institute offers Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology and Ph.D in various engineering disciplines. Admissions to B.Tech is done on the basis of merit obtained by the candidate in JEE-main.

Department of Law

The Department of Law offers two five-year integrated BA LLB and B.Com LLB. It was established in 2012. Students are admitted through the VET (Vishwavidhyalaya entrance test). The Department of Law is located inside the University teaching department) campus.

National Centre for Accelerator Based Research

GGV is going to establish a 3.0 MV pelletron accelerator(9SDH-4, NEC).[2][3][4] This is accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Board of Research in Nuclear Science, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and the University, which is for setting a Special Scientific Centre in the campus with the name "National Centre for Accelerator-based Research"(in short NCAR).[5] This inter-disciplinary research facility is related to atomic energy, it would help to create skilled manpower required for nuclear plants. NCAR will be the first of its kind in entire Central India.[5] The machine have already reached from National Electrostatics Corporation, United States.[6] The process of developing necessary infrastructure is going on. NCAR organized two days national workshop on particle accelerator under the aegis of Indian Society of Particle Accelerator(ISPA) on February 18–19, 2014.[7][8]

Academic profile

Ranking
University and college rankings
Pharmacy – India
NIRF (2020)[9]44

Guru Ghasidas University was ranked 44 in the pharmacy ranking in India by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2020.[9]

Library
Central Library of GGV

The Central Library of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya comprises more than 105000 books, 3950 back volumes of journals and 1100 Ph.D. theses.[10] This library has a well Wi-Fi system along with a sufficient number computers for free access. Along with Central library, departments of GGV have their separate Departmental libraries.

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "DAE-BRNS Indian Particle Accelerator Conference, 2013 (InPAC-2013)". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. "GURU GHASIDAS VISHWAVIDYALAYA BILASPUR (CG)". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  4. "Guru Ghasidas Central University vice-chancellor to head research chair after retirement". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Ghasidas varsity gets rare pelletron accelerator". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  7. http://ispa.org.in/index.php/2-uncategorised/45-2014-01-23-17-09-00
  8. "NCAR". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  9. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (Pharmacy)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 11 June 2020.
  10. "Central Library_Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.