Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

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Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
गुरु घासीदास विश्वविद्यालय
Guru Ghasidas University Insignia.svg
Mottogyan panth kripan kae dhara (Sanskrit)
Type Public
Established16 June 1983;40 years ago (1983-06-16)
Accreditation NAAC
Academic affiliations
Chancellor Ashok Gajanan Modak
Vice-Chancellor Alok Kumar Chakrawal [1]
Visitor President of India
Academic staff
365 [2]
Students8,256 [2]
Undergraduates 5,839 [2]
Postgraduates 2,100 [2]
317 [2]
Location
Bilaspur
,
Chhattisgarh
,
India

22°07′45″N82°08′10″E / 22.1293°N 82.1360°E / 22.1293; 82.1360
Campus Urban
655 acres (265 ha)
Website www.ggu.ac.in
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

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.

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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] [4] The university is named after the Satnami Guru Ghasidas.

Campus

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.

Library

Central Library of GGV Central Library,GGU.JPG
Central Library of GGV

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. [5] 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. [5]

Auditorium

The University Auditorium near the administrative block can accommodate about 800 people. [6]

Residential student halls

GGV is a residential institution. [7] There are six hostels at GGV, three for boys, namely Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Hostel, Swami Vivekananda Hostel and Shaheed Veer Narayan Hostel [8] 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. [9] [10]

Health Centre

The University Health Centre, near the University Computer Centre, has one Medical Officer, supporting staff and visiting specialists from CIMS. [11]

Sports complex

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. [12]

Cafeteria

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. [13]

Bank

There is a branch of Punjab National Bank on campus with ATM. [14]

Post office

The post office on campus is a branch of Koni, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, 495009. [14]

Transport

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. [15]

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 & Information Technology
  7. Economics
  8. Education
  9. English and Foreign Language
  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 Institute of Technology.JPG
Institute of Technology

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. [16]

National Centre for Accelerator Based Research

GGV is going to establish a 3.0 MV pelletron accelerator(9SDH-4, NEC). [17] [18] [19] 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). [20] 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. [20] The machine have already reached from National Electrostatics Corporation, United States. [21] 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. [22] [23]

Academic profile

Ranking

University and college rankings
Pharmacy – India
NIRF (2022) [24] 43

Guru Ghasidas University was ranked 43 in the pharmacy ranking in India by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022. [25]

Notable Alumni

See also

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  8. ↑ "Hostels | Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G.)".
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