Report of The Visiting Committee for Deemed to be University Status to Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi

Abstract

The Central Sanskrit Board set up by the Central Government in 1956 decided to establish one Central Organisation under which various Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeethas could be established and to coordinate their work. As a consequence the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan came into existence in October 1970 as an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 under the Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of India. Immediately after its formation, the Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati and Shri Lai Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha and three more Sanskrit Institutions at Jammu, Allahabad and Puri were taken over and converted into Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeethas in 1971. Subsequently, five more Vidyapeethas were established. However, in the year 1989 Tirupati Vidyapeetha and Shri Lai Bahadur Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha at New Delhi were given Deemed University status and hence became independent.