Shri Govind Guru University

Shri Govind Guru University is established by Government of Gujarat vide Gujarat Act No.24/2015 and is existent since September 28, 2015. As per the guiding principles of Gujarat Act No.24/2015, the region of Shri Govind Guru University, Godhra is Panchmahals, Mahisagar, Dahod, Chhotaudepur and Vadodara (Rural) districts.

At present, about 98 colleges are affiliated with Shri Govind Guru University and these colleges offering degrees at Graduation and Post-graduation level in faculties like Science, Commerce, Arts, Law, Homeopathy, Nursing, Education and Medical (paramedical) etc.

To make this university “The Smart University” is the dream of the State Government of Gujarat. So, the students of this area can get information and guidance for higher education easily.

The objects of the University shall be to develop the knowledge of different branches of Higher, Technical and Professional learning and research in relation to the different domains and their applications. The prime objects of the University shall be to create centers and institutes of excellence in the aforesaid areas in particular and other objects shall be as follows, namely:-

• To disseminate, create and preserve knowledge and understanding by teaching, research and training;
• To develop different patterns of teaching for a certificate or diploma courses, under graduate and post-graduate courses and at doctoral level and to maintain a high standard of education and its applications;
• To develop training facilities and to make arrangement for training in higher education, professional education and other fields, to provide for inter-relationship for national and international participation in the fields of science, technology, humanities, commerce, management, law, physiotherapy, medicine, paramedical, forestry, marine sciences, environmental sciences, and other fields;
• To establish close linkage with the industry to make teaching, research and training at the University, relevant to the needs of the society, at the national and global level;
• To introduce and nurture innovations in the existing education system through CBCS and interdisciplinary, skill based approach so as to reflect India’s spiritual knowledge, robust intellectual and inexhaustible creativity;
• To study and derive lessons from the ongoing latest experiments of education that are taking place in the State of Gujarat as also elsewhere and to foster all the valuable innovative work and promote the same for larger expansion and utilization;
• To establish Centre of Excellence or independent research centre(s);
• To provide avenues of higher education and research facilities primarily for the tribal population;
• To disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in tribal art, culture, tradition, language, medicinal systems, customs, forest based economic activities, and advancement in technologies relating to the natural resources of the tribal areas;
• To collaborate with national and international Universities or organisations, especially for undertaking cultural studies and research on tribal populations;
• To formulate tribal centric development models, publish reports and monographs; and to organize conferences, seminars on issues relating to tribals; and to provide inputs to policy matters in different spheres;
• To take appropriate measures for promoting the members of tribal communities capable of managing, administering and looking after their own needs by access to higher education through a University of their own;
• To take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning processes in inter-disciplinary studies and research; and to pay special attention to the improvement of the social, educational and economic conditions and welfare of the Scheduled Tribes, their intellectual, academic and cultural development.