Institutional Profile

Type of The Institution:   University

Name of the Institution:   Gauhati University

Name of the Head of the Institution:   Dr. Mridul Hazarika

Institutional Address:   Gauhati University, Jalukbari, Guwahati, Assam 781014

State:   Assam

Phone:   0361-2570412(0), 0361-2570415 (o), 2674243

Fax:   0361-2700311, 0361-2675515

Contact email:   hazarika50@gmail.com

Institution’s Homepage/Website:   http://www.gauhati.ac.in

About the Institution:   Gauhati University was incorporated by an Act of 1947. It started functioning on 26 January, 1948 as an affiliating, teaching and residential university in a few temporary buildings in Guwahati, with K.K.Handiqui as the first Vice-Chancellor. Phanidhar Dutta, Sailandhar Rajkhowa and Sarat Kumar Dutta were selected as the Registrar, Treasurer and Secretary of University Classes respectively. The emblem of the University, selected from among many submitted, was designed by T.Mukherjee, a textile designer of Ahmedabad. Two Sanskrit words inscribed on it � Vidyaya Sadhayeta (meaning achievement through learning) �indicate the motto of the University. The objective of the University is to bring about social, economic, cultural, moral and spiritual upliftment of the people of Assam. As stated in the Objects and Reasons appended to the Gauhati University Bill, 1947, �Assam offers great opportunities of study in many fields- linguistic, historical ethnological, archaeological, geological, scientific and agricultural �..It will be the aim of the proposed University to intensify the study of the age long spirit of Assamese life and character and to bring in them the necessary adjustments in relation to Indian civilization and to the different and new impulses of the West�. The desire of seeing the University �illumine the banks of the Luit� is reflected in the university anthem, Jilikaba Luitare Par, composed by Bhupen Hazarika. Starting with 18 affiliated colleges and 8 Post Graduate Departments in 1948, Gauhati University, today, has 41 Post Graduate Departments and a satellite campus at Kokrajhar besides Post Graduate Correspondence School and a constituent Law College. It has 258 affiliated colleges offering undergraduate and post graduate courses in the faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Engineering and Medicine. Gauhati University is a member of the Association of Indian Universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The aspirations of the founders of the University have not gone in vain. The alumni of this university have been able to make their mark not only within the state but at the national level as well. Indeed many have been able to adorn the higher echelons of the nations scientific, socio-cultural, administrative and political life. Gauhati University receives Annual Financial Grants from the Government of Assam and Development Grants from the University Grants Commission apart from different funding agencies like CSIR, DST DBT, NEC, ICAR, ICHR, MAKAIAS, among others, who sponsor various research projects.

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Number of Courses/Programmes Offered:   2         Details of Course Offered

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Total Number of Staff:   441         Staff Details

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