Motto | योगः कर्मशु कौशलं |
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Motto in English | Excellence in Action is Knowledge |
Type | Public |
Established | 2012 |
Chancellor | Governor of Chhattisgarh |
Vice-Chancellor | Prof. A. D. N. Bajpai |
Location | , , 22°04′35″N 82°09′53″E / 22.0765°N 82.1646°E |
Campus | Rural |
Affiliations | UGC, AIU |
Website | www |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya[1] [2] renamed from Bilaspur University, is a public state university located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. Founded in 2012, it is a teaching-cum-affiliating university which affiliates 122 colleges and has 5 departments. In a report by Dainik Bhaskar, the newspaper states that positions for professors in the University were not filled due to State Government disapproval.[3]
The university was established by an Act (No. 7 of 2012) - The Chhattisgarh vishwavidyalaya (Amendment) Act, 2011 of state legislature of Chhattisgarh. The university is located in Old High Court in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.