The University of Gorakhpur is a teaching and residential-cum-affiliating University.
It is situated at a distance of about 2 kilometers form the downtown to the east and
almost walking distance from railway station to the south. Although the idea of residential
University at Gorakhpur was first mooted by Dr. C.J. Chako, the then Principal of St. Andrews
College, then under Agra University, who initiated post-graduate and undergraduate science
teaching in his college, the idea got crystallized and took concrete shape by the untiring
efforts of Late Pt. S.N.M. Tripathi. The proposal was accepted in principle by the first
Chief Minister of U.P., Late Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, but it was only in 1956 that the
University came into existence by an act passed by the U.P. Legislature. It actually
started functioning since September 1, 1957, when the faculties of Arts, Commerce,
Law and Education were started. In the following year, 1958, the faculty of science
came into being. Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Agriculture came into existence
in later years. Late Mahant Digvijay Nath also made valuable contribution in the
formation of the University.
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