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Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya is a central university in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. It is one of Chhattisgarh's largest and oldest institutions of higher education. Established under Central Universities Act 2009, No. 25 of 2009.
गुरु घासीदास विश्वविद्यालय | |
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Motto | gyan panth kripan kae dhara (Sanskrit) |
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Type | Public |
Established | 16 June 1983 |
Accreditation | NAAC |
Academic affiliations | |
Chancellor | Ashok Gajanan Modak |
Vice-Chancellor | Alok Kumar Chakrawal[1] |
Visitor | President of India |
Academic staff | 365[2] |
Students | 8,256[2] |
Undergraduates | 5,839[2] |
Postgraduates | 2,100[2] |
317[2] | |
Location | , , India 22°07′45″N 82°08′10″E |
Campus | Urban 655 acres (265 ha) |
Website | www |
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Formerly known as Guru Ghasidas University (GGU), established by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly, it was formally inaugurated on 16 June 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 'A++'.[3] The university is named after the Satnami Guru Ghasidas.
Guru Ghasidas University campus spread over an area of 700 acres (2.8 km2), five kilometres from the main Bilaspur town. The Arpa river runs parallel to the university campus.
The Central Library of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya comprises more than 105,000 books, 3,950 back volumes of journals and 1,100 Ph.D. theses.[4] The library also provides access to online databases, e-journals and e-books. 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. The library has been recently named as Nalanda Central Library.[4]
The University Auditorium near the administrative block can accommodate about 800 people.[5]
GGV is a residential institution.[6] There are six hostels at GGV, three for boys, namely Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Hostel, Swami Vivekananda Hostel and Shaheed Veer Narayan Hostel[7] and three for girls namely Raj Mohini Devi Girls Hostel, Minimata Girls Hostel, Bilasa Devi Girls Hostel. Every hostel has a common room, a TV room, a reading room and an attached mess that serves vegetarian food. There is Internet Facility in Hostels, availed by MHRD. They have a good academic environment for students. Faculty members of university act as wardens for supervision of them.[8][9]
The University Health Centre, near the University Computer Centre, has one Medical Officer, supporting staff and visiting specialists from CIMS.[10]
The university has a sports complex with facilities for various indoor and outdoor games such as Badminton, Kabaddi, Volleyball, Basketball, Football, Cricket, and Athletics etc. The university also organizes inter-college and inter-University sports competitions and encourages students to participate in national and international events.[11]
The university has a cafeteria near the Administrative Building that provides snacks, tea, coffee, cold drinks, etc. during office hours from 09 a.m. to 06 p.m. on all working days. Canteen committee appointed by the university monitors the quality, rates & standard.[12]
There is a branch of Punjab National Bank on campus with ATM.[13]
The post office on campus is a branch of Koni, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, 495009.[13]
The university has a fleet of buses that ply between the campus and the city (Nehru Chowk) for students and employees of this university at regular intervals. The buses are also available for educational tours and excursions.[14]
The university is structured into the following academic divisions:
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.[15]
GGV is going to establish a 3.0 MV pelletron accelerator(9SDH-4, NEC).[16][17][18] 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).[19] 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.[19] The machine have already reached from National Electrostatics Corporation, United States.[20] 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 18–19 February 2014.[21][22]
University and college rankings | |
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Pharmacy – India | |
NIRF (2022)[23] | 43 |
Guru Ghasidas University was ranked 43 in the pharmacy ranking in India by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022.[24]
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