The Nagpur University was established on 4th August, 1923 with six affiliated colleges and 927
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students.
During 1947, the number of students increased to about 9000 accompanied by
the improvement and diversification of curricula and expansion in the range
of subjects. The expansion of library and sports facilities occurred during
these years for the intellectual and physical well being of the students. It
was in 1958 that some new Departments in Arts and Social Science faculties
were opened; the major expansion, however, came in 1963 when several science
and other teaching Departments were started. The Departments were shifted to
spacious buildings in the main campus in 1972-73. In later years, several
career oriented courses have been started viz., Business Management, Fine Arts,
Mass Communication, Library Science, Physical Education, etc.
During seventy-eight years of its existence, the University has progressed
satisfactorily and doing well in the midst of constraints of different
sorts. This has been possible because of futuristic vision about higher
education of the personalities who adored the chair of Vice-Chancellor of
this University. Their determination and dedication helped a lot in progress
of this University.
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Presently University comprises of thirty-Seven Postgraduate Teaching
Departments (PGTD), three Constituent Colleges/Institutions (Law college,
Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, and College of Education). Four
hundred Thirty Nine colleges are affiliated The Department and conducted
college/Institution buildings are spread over in 7 campuses with an overall
area of 327 acres. Following programs under various faculties are run
through the above-mentioned PGTD, Conducted College and Affiliated Colleges.
In addition to these, the research programs in almost all
thirty-Seven Departments and three conducted Colleges are propelled through M.
Phil., Ph. D. and Post-Doc. University Hobby Workshop conducts regular
training programs in the areas of Photography, Painting, Clay modeling,
Carpentry, Electronics, etc.
The above-cited formal programs are supplemented with following non-formal
mode of education to cover local need based education.
(i) Training programs in maintenance and isolation of biopesticidal/
biofertilisers culture, effective use of micro-bial technology in
aqua-culture farming, through Rajiv Gandhi Vikas Biotechnology Centre,
Nagpur University, Nagpur.
(ii) Extension activities through Adult and Continuing Education Programs.
In the context of Globalization meager quantitative
expansion of avenues of higher education will not suffice to cater to the
cause of legitimate expectation of the population. It is qualitative growth
along with in-built quality assurance mechanism, which is taken into
consideration while preparing this proposal. (i) The concept of e-learning
and interconnectivity is initialized to keep pace with the fast development.
(ii) Interdisciplinary courses, (iii) rural/backward development programme
(at Gadchiroli sub-centre) (iv) Strengthening of library (v) non-teaching
training programme (vi) strengthening of all departmental laboratories and
infrastructure for improvement in teaching and research.