Vidyasagar University
Science Block of Vidyasagar University
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| Motto | Shiksha, gyan, pragati |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 29 September 1981 |
| Founder | Anil Kumar Gain |
| Chancellor | Governor of West Bengal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Ranjan Chakrabarti |
| Postgraduates | 1500 |
| Location | Midnapore, West Bengal, India |
| Campus | Rural |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www.vidyasagar.ac.in |
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Vidyasagar University (Bengali: বিদ্যাসাগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) 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.
The university was established on 29 September 1981 by the Vidyasagar University Act 1981 (West Bengal Act XVIII of 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.
A short history of Vidyasagar University is written by a faculty of the Anthropology Department in Bengali which was published in January 2001 from Kolkata. In this book the author, is to be one of the founder teachers of the university narrated the missions of the institution as well as the deviations and the future possibilities in the context of globalization.
Anil Kumar Gayen (Bengali: অনীল কুমার গায়েন), FRS (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Sir Ronald Fisher. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Henry Ellis Daniels, who was the president of the Royal Statistical Society. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the famous Cambridge Philosophical Society.
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