Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyanga University

Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyanga University (JRDU; formerly Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University) is a public state government university in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 2001 by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya as an educational institution for disabled people. In 2022, Jagadguru Rambhadracharya expressed his intention to make the University into a UP state government. He suggested UP CM Yogi Adityanath ji takeover this University as State Public University. In June 2023, Uttar Pradesh government accorded status of State government university by passing Law in UP State assembly i.e. The Uttar Pradesh Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyang State University. Act, 2023 under Department of Divyangjan under which 50 percent of Divyang students and 50 percent of other students can be admitted to the University. It was the only university in the world exclusively for disabled people until the establishment of Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh, India).