SHRI LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI NATIONAL SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY

SHRI LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI NATIONAL SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY

The Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Sahitya Sammelan established a Sanskrit Vidyapeetha at Delhi on the auspicious day of Vijaya Dashmi on October 8, 1962. Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha was established with the late Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri as its Founder President. It was declared October 2, 1966 that the Vidyapeetha would henceforth be known as Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. On April 1, 1967, the Vidyapeetha was taken over by the Government of India and on December 21, 1970, it became a constituent of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, a registered autonomous Society and was named as Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. The Government of India on the recommendations of the University Grants Commision, granted the status of a Deemed to be University to the Vidyapeetha in November 1987. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Deemed to be University) has been established as Central University and started functioning as Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University (SLBSNSU), New Delhi from April 30, 2020 under the Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020. Its circular emblem in cyan and blue has a swan on water, ensconced by a border bearing the name of the university and its status. Its motto in Sanskrit ‘विद्यया विन्दते अमृतम्’ meaning ‘Immortality Through Knowledge’ is placed below the swan. Swan is the symbol of purity, cleanliness, chooses a pond of its choice, which is clean, is self disciplined, limitless like ‘vidya’ and it is the vehicle of Goddess Saraswathi, who is the Goddess of knowledge and wisdom.