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 Univers...