Banaras Hindu University Act, also called the BHU Act, formally ''the Banaras Hindu University Act of 1915'' , formerly the Benares Hindu University Act is an act of

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, passed on 1 October 1915 and assented by the

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on the same day to establish

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916 ...

. It was the act number 16 of 1915, and came into force from 1 April 1916 on being published in the

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on 23 March 1916. The act has been amended six times thus far, in 1922, 1930, 1951, 1958, 1966, and 1969.

History

In 1905 at the twenty first conference of

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in Banaras

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announced his goal of establishing a university in Banaras. ''Mahamana'' Malviya established a Hindu University Society, with Maharaja of Darbhanga Rameshwar Singh Bahadur as the president to crowd-source the funding from all over

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for the establishment of such university. The first draft was prepared in October 1911. On 22 March 1915, then Education Minister

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introduced the ''Benares Hindu University Bill.'' In his speech he remarked about the university: The bill was passed on 1 October 1915.

The Act

The Banaras Hindu University Act, 1915, ''as modified upto December 2018''
* The Benares Hindu University Act, ''as passed in 1915'' First Page of Benares Hindu University Act 1915

First Page of Benares Hindu University Act 1915

Statutes

The Statutes in force at the commencement of the

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were added into the BHU act as a schedule vide an amendment in 1966. The statutes of the university are published on th
official website
and are not usually added to the Act document.

References

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