Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya is a central university located in

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, India. It is one of the largest and oldest institution of higher education of

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. 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

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and

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. The

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(NAAC) has accredited the University as B+. The university is named after the Satnami Guru Ghasidas.

History

Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya established as 9th state university of undivided

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

on 16 June 1983 by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly. The university is named to honor the great Satnami Saint Guru

Ghasidas Ghasidas (18 December 1756 – 1850), also known as Guru Ghasidas, was guru (teacher) of the Satnampanth in the early 19th century. It was Guru Ghasidas who decided to start treating everyone the same in a deep forested part of Malwa Region. G ...

(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 motto 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 , five kilometres from the main Bilaspur town. The Arpa (river), Chhattisgarh Arpa river runs parallel to the university campus.

Residential student halls

GGV is a non-residential institution. 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: #

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Commerce Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

& IT #

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#Education #English #

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, Wild Life & Environment Sc. #Hindi #

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#Pure & Applied Mathematics #Pure & Applied Physics #Political Sc. & Public Administration #Rural Technology #

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School of Studies in Engineering and Technology

Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas University Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (ITGGV) or ITGGU, is a public engineering institute located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. It was established in 1997 as part of Guru Ghasidas University. It has eight departments. Curre ...

(IT-GGV) is a Constituent institution of

Guru Ghasidas University 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 o ...

. It was established in 1997. Currently, institute offers

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and

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in various engineering disciplines. Admissions to

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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). This is accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Board of Research in Nuclear Science,

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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). This inter-disciplinary research facility is related to

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, it would help to create skilled manpower required for nuclear plants. NCAR will be the first of its kind in entire

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. The machine have already reached from National Electrostatics Corporation, United States. The process of developing necessary infrastructure is going on
NCAR
organized two days national workshop on particle accelerator under the aegis o
Indian Society of Particle Accelerator(ISPA)
on February 18–19, 2014.

Academic profile

Ranking

Guru Ghasidas University was ranked 44 in the pharmacy ranking in India by

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(NIRF) in 2020.

Library

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. This library has a well

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system along with a sufficient number computers for free access. Along with Central library, departments of GGV have their separate Departmental libraries.

References

External links

* www.ggu.ac.in {{authority control Universities in Chhattisgarh Central universities in India Education in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh Educational institutions established in 1983 1983 establishments in Madhya Pradesh