Directorate of Distance Education, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore

The University was set up on 29th September 1981 by an Act called the Vidyasagar University Act 1981 (West Bengal Act XVIII of 1981) after the name of Pandit Iswar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, known as Vidyasagar, The educationist and social specialist of Bengal.
The University Grants Commission agreed acknowledgment to the University under 12 B on March 1, 1990.
The complete zone of University Campuses in a semi-country area is 182.
75 sections of land (Main Campus 103.
79, Residential Campus 35.
00 and third plot estimating 43.
97 sections of land).
The Vidyasagar University is set up with a mission to give a response to the necessities of the area, ethnic, socio – social and topographical alongside standard instruction.
The University logo with the maximEducation, Knowledge, Progress exemplifies the mission expressed previously.
The University is an affiliating the having its ward which will not be stretched out past the restriction of Midnapore District or any District which might be made in future out of any part thereof.
Thirty schools of Calcutta college inside the District of Midnapore were at first esteemed to have been associated to Vidyasagar University.
Now the absolute number raised to 39 including three designing Colleges – one Haldia Institute of Technology at Haldia, one College of Engineering and Management at Kolaghat and one MCKV Institute of Engineering at Liluah.
MSW Course of Vidyasagar school of Social work was given connection by the University.
Various Management Institutes (NSO) applied to the University looking for association of different administration Courses.
The University on a fundamental level has likewise consented to subsidiary a Medical College which will be begun soon at Midnapore town.
The University Authority is additionally considering the proposition for presenting Postgraduate Courses at Undergraduate Colleges associated to the University.
The instructing in the Postgraduate Departments is being offered in offbeat territories, research is being completed in fields generally unexplored, and expansion and field activity being greared to the satisfaction of the above mission.
These courses are completely covered by the standards of the Distance Education Council.
Truth be told the Council has offered some monetary help for infrastructural advancement.
A decent number of Postgraduate understudies of this University were equipped for NET, GATE and SLET.
Numerous competitors were admitted to the Ph.
D.
levels of this University.
Some different researchers have presented their theories for arbitration.
Numerous applicants have enlisted theirs names for Ph.
D degree.