Nehru Gram Bharti University, Allahabad

Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, vide its Notification No. F-9-42/2005-u.3(A) dated 27th June 2008 has made dream project of Late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru a reality by notifying Nehru Gram Bharati Vishwavidyalaya under section 3 of UGC Act 1956. With this notification Rajiv Gandhi Post Graduate College, Kotwa - Jamunipur, Allahabad stands elevated to the status of Vishwavidyalaya from the session 2008-2009.

He promised his electorate that the children's of Kisans need not to go to the cities for higher education, instead, would be educated and trained in the rural institutes, which is being setup in the village itself. These boys and girls will also get employment/self employment opportunities in their own villages. He also hoped that such rural institutes would come up in other part of the country also.

It may be recollected that on 26th July 1962 Late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru the then Prime Minister of India laid the foundation stone of the "Nehru Gram Bharati" at village Dubawal near Jamunipur-Kotwa of his Phulpur Parliamentary constituency. On this occasion addressing the gathering, he emphasized the need of vocational, technical and professional education apart from conventional one.

Nehru Gram Bharti University
104 F/3, Malviya Road,
George Town,
Allahabad,
U.P.
India

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