Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur

Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalayawas established under Jabalpur University Act on the 12th of June 1956. Since then the University has chartered an illustrious history of 65 golden years of academic achievements and intellectual leadership. It was envis evements and intellectual leadership. It was envisaged by the decision makers that the spread of education especially higher education would lead to deeper socio – economic development. The achievements of the University has been recognized and documented by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 2024, when it awarded a high rating of “A Grade” with CGPA score 3.22. We are striving for an even better rating in next accreditation. The University covers a vast arena of disciplines and encompasses various faculties such as Science, Arts, Social Science, Commerce, Law, Management and Education. The various departments are continuously involved in teaching and research activities that are recognized both nationally and internationally. Apart from 24 well established teaching and research departments, the University also runs several sponsored centers like Academic Staff College, Community College, Women’s Study Center. Creating an ideal society and an intellectual domain that initiates, nourishes and perpetuates values of humanity, conscious co-existence and achievement of excellence. To provide quality education, develop human resource and improve literacy and socio-economic status of society as a whole in general and deprived sections of our society in particular. Rani Durgavati Vishwavidylaya, Jabalpur was established as the University of Jabalpur in 1956, as an affiliating State University devoted to teaching, researchand extension activities. The Institution was rechristened in 1983 after the valorous Gond tribal queen of Garha, Mandla, Rani Durgavati. It is not meresymbolism that the University has been named after the Gond queen. In fact, it is a testimony and declaration to the world about the indomitable spirit of Indian womanhood represented in the tribal queen who lived and died for the values of freedom and personal integrity. The University is situated in the tribal heartland of the country. This geographical area is a hilly terrain covered under dense forest with agriculture, poultry and forest produce being the main sources of livelihood of the population. There is a large defense establishment in the area with sprinkling of a few other industries like garment manufacturing and mining.This is the socioeconomic context from which the University is constrained to operate. The first decade of our Independence saw the establishment of institutions of Higher Education all over the country. The primary objective was to cover even those are as that were socio, economically backward, so that winds of social change, economic and political development could swipe every nook and corner of this vast and varied country. Now the outreach and spread of the University has increased manifold covering seven sprawling districts with a population of over one crore. The 26 departments and 6 centers offer a bouquet of 63 academic programmes including Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. in 29 subjects, 18Under Graduate programmes, one of them being an integrated bachelor programme that is extremely popular among students. The University has added several buildings andnew departments to it since the last NAAC visit. It is to be noted here that the number of affiliating colleges has gone up significantly to 163, with 3 colleges having Potential for Excellence and 8 Autonomous colleges. The University has added several new Central facilities to its infrastructure as support mechanisms that have contributed towards quality improvement in the content and delivery of education.