History Of Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Jawaharlal Nehru University was founded in 1969 by an act of parliament.

It was named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. G. Parthsarthi was the first vice-chancellor

University is organised into ten schools, each of which has several centres, and four independent special centres:

1-Centre for the Study of Law and Governance:

Founded in 2001, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance is a special interdisciplinary centre focussing on critical social science approaches in its attempt to explore how practices of law and governance are embedded in political, economic, social and historical processes;

2-School of Arts and Aesthetics:
This is one of the newest schools in the university.

3-School of Biotechnology:
This school was set up in 2006 from the earlier Center for Biotechnology. BioSpectrum magazine rated the Bio Technology program of JNU as third ranking institute among all public schools in India.

4-School of Computer and Systems Sciences:
Since its inception in 1974, this school has been attracting the largest number of applications as compared with the other schools.

5-School of Environmental Sciences:
Research into remote sensing application in geosciences, especially groundwater and earthquake forewarning and Sun-Earth connection.

6-School of International Studies: This is the oldest school. It predates the establishment of JNU as the Indian School of International Studies, which was set up in 1955.

7-School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies:
This is the only school that offers undergraduate courses with numerous centers: the Center for Arabic and African Studies, the Center for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Center for German Studies, the Center of Indian Languages, the Center for Japanese Korean and North East Asian Studies, the Center for English Studies, the Center for Linguistics, the Center for Persian and Central Asian Studies, the Center for Russian Studies, the Center for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies.

8-School of Life Sciences:
The School of Life Sciences (SLS) was founded on the basis of a report prepared by a working group headed by Prof. M.S. Swaminathan in 1970.

9-School of Physical Sciences:
This school was formed in 1986 with a faculty in Physics and later added with faculties in Chemistry and Mathematics.

10-School of Social Sciences:
It is the leading school (in terms of the number of faculty members) in JNU with nine centres.