Chhatrapati Shahu Ji MaharajUniversity (C.S.J.M.U.), formerly Kanpur University, is a public state university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the largest universities of Asia catering to urban and rural students offering professional and academic courses in disciplines of Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Engineering, Biotechnology, Computer Applications, Management and Medicine.
History
In
modern times, during the close of the 19th century, the Society for Propagation
of Gospel of Christ (S. G. P. C.) successfully introduced the classes of higher
learning in its schools in Kanpur. Gradually the demand for institutions for
higher education in the fast growing commercial metropolis gained momentum. The
Arya Samaj, Sanatandharma and other missions and denominational institutions
opened such colleges under the encouraging patronage of the government. The
Agriculture College, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Central Leather
Institute, Textile Institute and Sugar Institute were also established in
course of time. After India became free, further studies were made in the field
of education in Kanpur. Institutes of Higher Learning, Like Ganesh Shanker
Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College and Indian Institute of Technology were set
up.
Even
after the setting of these institutions the long cherished desire of the people
of Kanpur for getting a university, a real seat of eminence and excellence
which could co-ordinate and update the working of the different educational
institutions, remained unfulfilled. In the mean time, several academic
institutions with much advanced resources and expertise sprung up in different
parts of the country. Education and Research has advanced by laps and bounds
and Kanpur in comparison looked smaller than before, simultaneously an
imperative need was felt by a vast segment of the population of Kanpur for an
establishment of learning which could fulfill their academic needs and provide
leadership in social, economic, cultural, and technical spheres.
The
Radha Krishnan Commission (1949) suggested the establishment of a university at
Kanpur as it was felt that the Agra University to which the colleges at Kanpur
were affiliated was getting increasingly overburdened. In order to meet the
popular demand and to reduce the burden of Agra University, Kanpur University
was established by an Act of U.P. State Legislature in the year 1966. Since its
inception the Kanpur University has made considerable growth both in the number
of the colleges affiliated to it, and the diversification and varieties of
subjects taught. Today it has 170 colleges spread over fifteen districts of the
state, affiliated to it. About 2.75 Lac students appear every year in the
various undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in the faculties of Arts,
Commerce, Science, Education, Law, Agriculture, Medicine, Ayurvedic &
Unani, Engineering and Technology, Business Management, Life Science, and Advanced
Studies in Social Science etc. There is also a centre for Computer Application,
Department of English and Education.
The
University has been making continuous efforts to improve and upgrade teaching
facilities in its constituent and affiliated colleges. For this purpose an In
Service Teacher's Orientation and Research Centre' was established in the
University with the approval of the U.G.C. The College Development Council was
also established. The CDC has been doing useful work by providing facilities to
the colleges and procuring U.G.C.'s assistance for the developmental activities
and research for the teachers.
The
University has been alive to the need of bringing in qualitative changes in its
character and during the past eight years it has gradually emerged as a
distinctive teaching and research centre. The establishment of a Central
Library has fulfilled the much-felt need of providing a reference centre. The
opening of M.Phil Classes in the University in English, Education and Commerce,
K.N. Kaul Institute for Life Sciences, Institute Of Business Management can be
said to be a landmark in the growth of this University as a eminent center of
higher learning. These classes comprise the residential wing of the University.
The
University administration has been conscious of its social and cultural
commitments as well. The establishment of the Department of Adult and
Continuing Education in the University, a Population Centre, Planning Forum and
Women Study Centre, in one or other of the pioneer institutions of the
University have opened a new chapter in linking the University to further
extension work. The University is successfully running the M.B.A. classes and
has recently established an ambitious Institute of Engineering and Technology
in the campus.
During
the thirty-seven year of its existence, the C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur has
established itself firmly as a quality teaching and research institution. It is
fulfilling a great need of education in the State. It is significant to note
that from the very beginning the university has adopted a progressive attitude.
Besides the provision of instructions through its colleges in various Liberal
arts and science, the University has emerged as a Leader in the field of non
formal education. The direction of progress in this regard include adult,
continuing education & women studies.
The
residential wing of the University and the college constituting the university
have established a reputation for organizing high level conference, seminars
and symposia. Matters of topical interest with relevance to academic, quality
of life and living are discussed. There is an effort to widen the frontiers of
knowledge. In this, the university and its affiliated units are immensely
assisted by the high traditions of literature, art and culture of this
illustrious metropolis. The university subsidizes the visit of the faculty to
attend national and international institutions of higher learning. Thus, those
engaged in the task of imparting instructions to young students are able to
keep themselves abreast of the recent thinking and development in various
spheres. The U.G.C. has provided a Computer Centre for efficient university
workings and research.
By
introducing a three years Degree course, the university has come in line with
the other universities in the country. Considerable attention is paid in the
university to games, sports, physical education, the National Cadet Corps and
the National Service Scheme. The student of the university have excelled in all
these fields. The university is consistent in its pursuing directions that such
it towards an increased use of Hindi, privileges for the physically handicapped
including the blind students & facilities for the scheduled caste,
scheduled tribes & the backward class.
Facilities
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