Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJP Rohilkhand University) is a government university in

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

, India and campus spread over . It is an ISO9001:2015 Certified U.P. Government University. The university headquarters is in Bareilly with territorial jurisdiction extending over the districts of

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, Rampur,

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Pilibhit Pilibhit is a city and a municipal board of Pilibhit district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Pilibhit is the north-easternmost district of Bareilly division, situated in the Rohilkhand region of the sub-Himalayan Plateau belt next to f ...

and

Shahjahanpur Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. History Shahjahanpur was established by Dil ...

.The administrative block is on the outskirts of Bareilly city along Pilibhit bypass road.

History

The university was established in 1975 as Rohilkhand University, and was renamed as Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University in August 1997 in honour of social reformer

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, also known as Mahatma Jyotiba Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890) was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields, including erad ...

Notable alumni

Santosh Gangwar Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is an Indian politician and the former Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament (16th Lok Sabha), f ...

, Chairperson, Committee on Public Undertakings * Salona Kushwaha,

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, cricketer *

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, film actor * Y. D. Sharma, professor *

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, executive *

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, film maker

References

External links

M. J. P. Rohilkhand University official webpage

U.P State Council Of Higher Education / NAAC / NAAC Accreditation Status of College, University
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History

Notable alumni

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