Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya (GKV) Haridwar

About Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya:

Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya was founded on March 4, 1902, by Swami Shraddhanandajiwith the sole aim to revive the ancient Indian Gurukula System of education, on the bank of Ganges at a distance of about 6 km. from Hardwar and about 200 km. from Delhi. This institution was established with the objective of providing an indigenous alternative to Lord Macaulay education policy by imparting education in the areas of Vedic literature, Indian philosophy, Indian culture, modern sciences, and research. It is a deemed to be university fully funded by UGC/Govt. of India.

Arya Samaj has been advocating women’s education since the day it was founded. As part of its policies for the upliftment of women in the country, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Dehradun was established in 1922 by Acharya Ramdevji as a second campus of women’s education. To give real shape to the dreams of Swami Shraddhanandaji, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Hardwar was established in 1993.

Gurukula has witnessed many distinguished guests in its journey till date. To name a few of them are Mr.C.F. Andrews, Former Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Remjy Mcdonald, Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Radha Krishnan, Sh. Jamnalal Bajaj, Dr. Munje, Sadhu Vaswani, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Smt. Indira Gandhi and Sh.Gyani Jail Singh, Sh.L.K.Advani and recently in 2011 Smt.Meira Kumar, Speaker Lok Sabha visited the Vishwa Vidyalaya. The distinguished services of this institution to the nation were recognized when it was given the status of Deemed to be University in 1962 by University Grants Commission. National Accreditation and Assessment Council [NAAC]has awarded four-star status to the Vishwavidyalaya in 2002. Vishwavidyalaya celebrated the year 2002 as its centenary year. The Vishwavidyalaya has had phenomenal growth over the past 100 years and now offers 20 UG courses and 17 PG courses in different disciplines. Research programmes leading to the degree of Ph.D. are being run in the fields of Vedic literature, Sanskrit literature, Philosophy, Hindi, English, Psychology, Ancient Indian History Culture & Archaeology, Environmental Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Human Consciousness and Yogic Sciences, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Computer Sciences and Management Studies.

Membership :

• Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya is a Registered autonomous institute. All the degrees conferred by Vishwavidyalaya are recognized by UGC and AICTE wherever required.
• Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya is a pride member of Association of Indian Universities and Association of Commonwealth Universities.

• Association of Indian Universities[AIU]
• Pharmacy Council of Inida[PCI]
• National Council for Teacher Education [NCTE]
• National Accreditation and Assessment Council [NAAC]
• All India Council for Technical Education [AICTE]
• University Grants Commision [UGC]

Departments:

• Technology
• Pharmacy
• Zoology
• Botany
• Microbiology
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Humanities
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Commerce
• Management

Contact Information:

• Address: Jagjeetpur, Haridwar, Uttarakhand 249404
• Phone: 01334 690 011,07300761138
• Email ID:registrar@gkv.ac.in