Vidyasagar University

Vidyasagar University was established by an Act of the West Bengal legislature which was notified in the Calcutta Gazette on 24 June 1981. It is an affiliating university in Paschim Medinipur district of southern West Bengal, India. It offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels.It was founded by the mathematician and statistician from the University of Cambridge, Prof. Anil Kumar Gain.History Vice chancellorsBhupesh Chandra Mukherjee, 1981–1986Birendra Nath Goswami, 1986-1996Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri, 1996-2000Manas Kumar ChattopadhyayManoranjan MaitiSatya Narayan GhoshAmiya Kumar DevAnanda Deb MukhopadhyaySwapan Kumar PramanickNanda Dulal PariaRanjan Chakrabarti The university was established on 29 September 1981 by the Vidyasagar University Act 1981 of the state of West Bengal to commemorate Pandit Iswar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, also known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the great educationist and social worker of 19th century Bengal. The University Grants Commission accorded recognition to the university under Section 12 B on 1 March 1990.Vidyasagar University, named after one of the most illustrious sons of Bengal as well as one of the doyens of Indian Renaissance, Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, has grown out of a long cultural and education movement in West Bengal in general and in the undivided district of Midnapore in particular.