Sanskrit language and literature have not only played a vital role in the development of most of the languages in India and even abroad but has also laid the foundation of great Indian culture whose horizons stretch backwards to times immemorial in the hoary past. Even today, Sanskrit serves as a repository of the unique cultural heritage of ancient India. Not only this, Sanskrit has been the strongest and the most enduring force ensuring the unity of this great land of immense social, geographical and cultural diversity. Sanskrit is the most prominent source of soft power that India wields in the world today. Sanskrit also provides the theoretical foundation of ancient sciences.

Hence, preservation and propagation of Sanskrit language and literature assumes paramount importance for all-round development of India.

Fully conscious of this responsibility in this regard, the Govt. of India, in pursuance of the recommendations of the Sanskrit Commission (1956-57) constituted a Central Sanskrit Board, which recommended the establishment of a Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan. Accordingly, the Sansthan was established in 15th October, 1970 as an autonomous organisation registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860) for the development and promotion of Sanskrit all over the country and abroad. It was fully funded by Government of India and functioned as an apex body for propagation and development of Sanskrit and assisted the Ministry of Human Resource Development in formulating and implementing various plans and schemes for the development of Sanskrit studies. It also assumed the role of a nodal body for the effective implementation of various recommendations made by the Sanskrit Commission set up by the Government of India, Ministry of Education in 1956 to consider the propagation and development of Sanskrit language and education in all its aspects. The Sansthan was fully financed by the Government of India and works as a vital agency of the Central Government under the aegis of Ministry of Education / Ministry of Human Resource Development.

In the subsequent decades, in pursuit of its mandate, the Sansthan went on to establish 12 campuses at various locations in the country and its headquarters in New Delhi, with facilities for teaching of Sanskrit language and literature from Class 6 to 9, +2, +3 Shastri (BA/ Graduation), Acharya (MA/Post graduation) and Vidyavaridhi (Ph.D/Postgraduation). Such was the level of excellence of these campuses that, in due course of time, two of its campuses, namely, LBS Kendrya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth at New Delhi, and Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha at Tirupati, were declared to be Deemed Universities.

In 2002, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan itself, along with its constituent campuses, was declared as a Deemed University on the recommendation of Universtiy Grants Commission by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher & Secondary Education, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi vide their notification No. 9-28/2000-U.3 dated 7th May, 2002.

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Transformation of Central Sanskrit University as a world-class university for establishment of the glory of Sanskrit learning in the global context in the order to make Bharat as "Vishwa guru".
 

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• To create a platform for new knowledge based on Sanskrit heritage.
• To promote Indian Knowledge system in all relevant fields.
• To bring Sanskrit as a medium in mainstream Education.
• To connect the Sanskrit fraternity to the modern academia.
• To make Sanskrit as a vibrant field of multidisciplinary research.
• To develop CSU as an accredited Sanskrit based knowledge hub.

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• To disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional, research and extension facilities for the promotion of Sanskrit Language and such other branches of learning as it may deem fit.
• To make special provisions for integrated courses humanities, social sciences and science in its educational programmes.
• To take appropriate measures for promoting innovations teaching learning process and inter-disciplinary studies and research.
• To educate and train manpower for the overall development, promotion, preservation and research in the field of Sanskrit and Sanskrit traditional subjects.