Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University

Impressed by its performance and the all-around developments, the Government of India, in March 1983 mooted a proposal to confer the status of Deemed to be University on this University along with the Kendriya Sanskrit University, Tirupati. Finally, after the necessary inspection and other formalities, the Government of India on the recommendations of the University Grants Commision granted the status of a Deemed to be University to the University in November 1987.

Prior to this, on the recommendation of the University Grants Commision, a Society, independent of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan was registered under the Chairmanship of the former Human & Resource Minister, Hon'ble Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao in the name of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University on the 20th January 1987. In 1989 Dr.Mandan Mishra was appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University.