Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya
Motto योगः कर्मशु कौशलं
Motto in English
Excellence in Action is Knowledge
TypePublic
Established2012 (2012)
ChancellorGovernor of Chhattisgarh
Vice-ChancellorProf. A. D. N. Bajpai
Location, ,
22°04′35″N 82°09′53″E / 22.0765°N 82.1646°E / 22.0765; 82.1646
CampusRural
AffiliationsUGC, AIU
Websitewww.bilaspuruniversity.ac.in

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya renamed from Bilaspur University, is a public state university located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. It is established by the Gazette notification on 03.02.2012 of Chhattisgarh Act No 07, 2012, the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Amendment) Act, 2011 and came in to its existence in June, 2012. The University is situated on in front of Koni Police Thana ,Bilaspur- Ratanpur Road, Koni ,Bilaspur (C.G) 495009.

Founded in 2012, it is a teaching-cum-affiliating university which affiliates colleges and has 6 departments. After the act, it was initially located at Old High Court in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh and presently the campus is in Koni, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. University has more than 110 affiliated colleges which includes UG, PG and Ph.D. programs.

In a report by Dainik Bhaskar, the newspaper states that positions for professors in the University were not filled due to State Government disapproval.