Type Public Location Patan, Gujarat, India Affiliations UGC Address Patan, Gujarat Chancellor Om Prakash Kohli Vice-chancellor Ratanlal Godara | Established 1986 Campus Rural Website www.ngu.ac.in Phone 073839 19003 Founded 1986 | |
Motto पावका नः सरस्वती (Sanskrit) Similar Saurashtra University, Veer Narmad South Guj, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat University | ||
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Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University is a public university in Patan, Gujarat, India. The geographical jurisdiction of the North Gujarat University encompasses four districts: Mehsana, Patan, Banaskantha and Sabarkantha. It is NACC 'A' accredited state university.
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History
To cater to the cultural and education needs of the area, North Gujarat University was established by Ordinance No. 5 of 1986 dated 17 May 1986 which was later passed as the North Gujarat University Act No. 22 of 1986 on 11 September 1986 by Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The university has been functioning, growing, and expanding steadily since then.
Location and campus growth
This university was carved out of Gujarat University. On bifurcation, the North Gujarat University inherited no physical assets from its parent university.
Patan, a historical town in northern part of Gujarat, was officially designated as the headquarters of the university. The town happens to have composite campus of four affiliated colleges. The managing council of the colleges was kind enough to let the infant university rent its two hostel buildings to accommodate its offices. Thus the university began to operate and serve 41 colleges scattered over the three districts of Banaskantha, Mehsana and Sabarkantha.
With the two hostel buildings, the university rented Gandhi Memorial Hall to house its library. The aim was to start building a nucleus library for the future post-graduate departments.
The university simultaneously moved the state government to acquire land measuring about 185 acres (0.75 km2) from farmers. It also requested the state government to transfer its seed farm land measuring about 35 acres (140,000 m2) to the university. This entailed considerable delay owing to litigation in the State High Court and then in the Supreme Court.
Following the Supreme Court judgment, acquisition of the land has been possible. As a result, over the years the university has been able to get land as follows:
The total land available is 212.50 acres (0.8600 km2).
In addition to this, the university has received a property worth Rs.10 lakhs donated by the Gramodhyog Mandal, Patan. The university employment bureau is housed in that building. Proposals to the state government for further assistance in materializing plans for more constructions, in phased manner, are under active consideration.