| Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | |
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| गुरु गोबिंद सिंह इंद्रप्रस्थ विश्वविद्यालय | |
Seal of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University |
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| Motto | ज्योतिवृ्णीत तमसो विजानन् Sanskrit |
| Established | 1998 |
| Type | Public |
| Religious affiliation | Secular |
| Chancellor | Tejendra Khanna |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dr. D. K. Bandyopadhyay |
| Students | 60,000 |
| Doctoral students | 200 |
| Location | Dwarka, Delhi, India |
| Campus | Urban 60 acres (24 ha) (Main campus) |
| Former names | Indraprastha University |
| Colours | Maroon and Blue |
| Sports | Basketball, Volleyball, Football |
| Nickname | GGSIPU |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www.ggsipu.nic.in |
| State University of Delhi. | |
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (informally Indraprastha University or simply IP) (Hindi: गुरु गोबिंद सिंह इंद्रप्रस्थ विश्वविद्यालय) is a public, professional university located in Delhi, India. Founded in 1998 it is a teaching-cum-affiliating university which affiliates more than 120 colleges in Delhi-NCR and has 15 schools and centres on its campus with one constitutional college — Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (under the direct administration of the university). The university has been graded 'A' by NAAC Accredited University.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has received the Platinum Technology Award for quality and excellence in the field of education, in Geneva, Switzerland, presented by Otherways Management and Consulting (OMAC), a Paris-based international organisation.[1][2]
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities,[3] Association of Indian Universities,[4] Medical Council of India and Distance Education Council.[5]
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Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was established as Indraprastha University (IPU) on 28 March 1998 and eminent I.T. expert, Professor K. K. Aggarwal was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the university.[6] The university was named after the ancient mythological city of Indraprastha, which features prominently in the Mahabharata epic.[7] In 2001, the university was officially re-christened as Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) after the tenth guru of Sikhs Guru Gobind Singh.[8] The university is completely secular and doesn't have any religious affiliations.
In 1997 Delhi had four universities — Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia University and Indira Gandhi National Open University. All of them are Central Universities. Delhi University (DU), the only affiliating university, had reached the point of saturation and was unable to either open a college on its own or affiliate colleges opened by either the Government of Delhi or by a private organization. Therefore, the Delhi government decided to open a new state university to reduce the burden on DU. The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was formed by passing a bill in legislative assembly.[9] GGSIPU was established with a focus towards professional courses, unlike Delhi University which is more oriented for general courses.[10]
Eighty five percent of the total seats intake in programs of university were made for Delhi students only, which applies for all the schools, centres and colleges located in Delhi. This special mass reservation provides much needed opportunities to the students of Delhi, as the students were no longer required to go to far-flung states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu for seeking admission under professional programmes. A total intake capacity of about 5000 seats in was created; now it has crossed over 50,000.[10]
The University Grants Commission has recognized the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and has declared it eligible for receiving Central assistance in terms of Rules under Section 12-B of the U.G.C. Act, 1956. Earlier the University had already been included in the list of Universities maintained by the Commission under Section 2(f) of the U.G.C. Act. The Government of Delhi continued to provide full grant to meet the recurring as well as non-recurring expenditure for the first five years that is up to 2004-2005, in addition to the matching grant required to be provided for Development Corpus Fund, every year.
Since 2005-2006 onwards, that is after five years of establishment of university, the Government of Delhi meets the demand of non-recurring expenditures only, which includes, building maintenance, purchase of laboratory equipments, books, office furniture and other technical and non-technical equipments.
GGSIPU is governed by a board of management. The Vice-Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is the day-to-day administrator of university and is appointed by Delhi government and responsible to the board of management.
University has following departments which hold responsibility for administrative works related to university:
Indraprastha University has 13 schools and 2 centres. These are the faculties of the university. All are present at either main campus (Dwarka) or Kashmere Gate campus; they are among the pioneer institutions of the university. Curriculum for these schools and centers is usually different from other affiliated institutions.
University Centres
| Board of Management | |||
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| Name | Note | ||
| Prof. D. K. Bandyopadhyay | Vice Chancellor of University | ||
| D. M. Spolia | Principal Secretary (Finance), Government of NCT of Delhi | ||
| Rajendra Kumar | Secretary (Higher Education & Technical Education), Govt. of NCT of Delhi | ||
| Lt. General S. S. Mehta | Member | ||
| Analjit Singh | Chairman, MAX New York Life Insurance Co. Ltd | ||
| P. V. Indiresan | Ex-Director, IIT Chennai | ||
| P. Rajendran | COO, NIIT Ltd | ||
| Prof. V. S. Ramamurthy | Chairman, IIT Delhi | ||
| Chandra Mohan | Chairman, Board of Governors, Punjab Engineering College | ||
| N.K. Ganguly | Former Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research | ||
| Prof. A.K. Aggarwal | Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College | ||
| N.M.D. Jain | Engineer-in-chief, PWD | ||
| Suman Gupta | Dean, University School of Law and Legal Studies | ||
| Anu Singh Lather | Dean, University School of Management Studies | ||
| B.P. Joshi | Registrar of University | ||
The university has two campuses: one in Kashmere Gate and other in Dwarka. Kashmere Gate was the original campus where university was established, and Dwarka campus is the new campus of university. At present time university is now functioning from its Dwarka campus spread over an area of 60 acres where a still considerable portion is under construction. Almost all of its departments have shifted from Kashmere Gate, except University School of Management Studies, University School of Education and University School of Architecture & Planning which will shift in July, 2011; the University School of Information Technology is running from both campuses. On Dwarka campus, the university is running 10 schools and imparting professional education to more than 3000 graduate and post-graduate students.
In future Kashmere Gate campus will solely acquired by Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology and Ambedkar University. With an aim to provide "Research and Development" facilities of international standards, the university has decided to set up an Institute of Information Technology in Surajmal Vihar, East Delhi. For this purpose it has acquired 19 acres (77,000 m2) of land on which the construction is likely to start very soon.
The library, re-christened as University Information Resource Centre (UIRC), was established in September 1999 with the prime responsibility to supplement the education and knowledge needs of the students, researchers and its faculty members. As like other departments of university, UIRC has shifted to the Dwarka campus, but the Information Technology and Business sections are still in Kashmere Gate. The services offered by UIRC are fully computerized. It has Web OPAC system with university’s website which helps its members and international academic community to assess the information on the library holdings on-line. The centre at present serves about 4000 members.[11]
GGSIPU was established as an affiliating and teaching university to promote studies in the emerging areas of higher education. The university runs almost 50 courses of study as diverse as engineering, technology, business management, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, education, and law.[12][13] There are more than 120 colleges affiliated to it which are run according to the rules and regulation set by the university.[14]
Admission to courses of the university are strictly done by Common Entrance Tests (CETs). The university holds 26 CETs for admissions to all of its programs.[15]
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University enrolls foreign students in its affiliated schools and colleges.[16] It has been qualified to be a certified and education partner with Educational Testing Services (ETS), Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The university is a certified test administrative site for internet based examination for TOEFL iBT and other ETS tests (GRE, GMAT, SAT). The university has been recognized globally with this significant achievement and by this it promotes international education.[17] The university hosted 30 students from Laos as part of a bilateral cooperation programme on Information and Communication Technology.[18]
According to Webometrics Indraprastha University is ranked 57th among the top universities of India, just behind the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow; it ranks at 5097th spot in the list of world's top universities. Amity Law School, one of the affiliated institutes of the university ranked at 10th in the list of prominent Law Institutes of India.[19] Faculty of Biotechnology of university-University School of Biotechnology is ranked sixth in the list of Premier Public Biotechnology Institutes of India.[20]
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The Punjab and Sind Bank at the Kashmere Gate campus of university served as the official banker of university until the shifting of university to its Dwarka campus. Now Indian Bank provides money management facility to university students and staff as official banker of university. It is the official and only vendor of university's CETs' forms.
There is no common Alumni Association of the University but the schools and centres have their own separate ones. Although Indraprastha University has 13 schools and 2 centres, only few of these have their own established alumni associations.[21]
University Schools
University Centres
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