The Central University of Karnataka, (CUK), is a central university situated in Kadaganchi village in the Aland taluka of Kalaburagi district in the Indian state of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009, "The Central Universities Act, 2009".

History

The university started operating from its permanent campus at the Gulbarga-Waghdhari inter-state highway in Aland

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...

identified by the Karnataka State Government. The Central Universities Bill 2009 aimed at creating a new central university each in

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, Jammu and Kashmir,

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and

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. It also sought to convert Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya in

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, Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya in Sagar (

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) and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in

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into Central universities.Parliament passes bill to set 12 central varsities – Times Of India
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Schools and Departments

* School of Business Studies ** Department of Business Studies ** Department of Commerce ** Department of Economic Studies and Planning ** Department of Tourism and Hotel Management * School of Earth Sciences ** Department of Geography ** Department of Geology * School of Education and Training * School of Humanities and Languages ** Department of English ** Department of Hindi ** Department of Kannada Literature and Culture ** Department of Linguistics ** Department of Foreign Language Studies ** Department of Music and Fine Arts * School of Social and Behavioral Sciences ** Department of History & Archaeology ** Department of Psychology ** Department of Public Administration ** Department of Social Work ** Department of Folklore and Tribal Studies * School of Media Studies ** Department of Journalism and Mass Communication * School of Computer Science ** Department of Computer Science * School of Chemical Sciences ** Department of Chemistry * School of Life Sciences ** Department of Life Sciences * School of Physical Sciences ** Department of Mathematics ** Department of Physics * School of Engineering ** Department of Electrical Engineering ** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering * School of Legal Jurisprudence Studies ** Department of Law

References

External links

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History

Schools and Departments

See also

References

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