About Rajiv Gandhi South Campus

BHU has established the Rajiv Gandhi South Campus at Barkachha about 75 Kms southwest of Varanasi on 2760 acres of land. The first academic session commenced from 2006-07 with six programmes which has increased to more than 25 in the present session. This campus is emerging as a potential hub to impart education, training and entrepreneurship development skills, to the youth, women and marginalized sections of society in the backward region of Mirzapur and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh, Western Bihar and Northern Madhya Pradesh. The Campus is heading well as per your vision for education to generate new breed of human resource who would be job creators and not job seekers. The South Campus (Barkachha) acquired by Banaras Hindu University, on lease in perpetuity from Bharat Mandal Trust in April 1979 with an area of 1104 ha, is situated about 8 km South West of Mirzapur town on Robertsganj high way (map). Physiographically and climatically, the farm represents the entire Vindhyan tract, covering parts of UP, MP, Bihar and Chhatisgarh. The river Majhawati flows on the eastern border of the farm. The purpose of acquiring this farm basically was to generate and transfer knowledge and technology to the population of neighborhood.

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