Dr. C.V. Raman University is the University whose whole mission is to provide access and opportunity to students from all sectors of the country’s diverse population as well as from other countries by providing quality education thereby improving the socio-economic status of the society. The Prime mission of CVRU is also to promote excellence in value based education and skill-based teaching learning.

 

Dr. C.V. Raman University (CVRU) is a premier university of the state of Chhattisgarh with its 26 departments inculcating education in the field of its various faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Management, Law, Journalism & Mass Communication, Engineering, Information Technology, Research, Education, Physical Education etc. through its numerous courses by an enrolment of huge number of students. The university established in the tribal region of the rural environment of Chhattisgarh with its primary objective and vision of providing higher education to the students of rural background giving an access for them to obtain an easy opportunity for getting an advanced ICT based technological studies contributing to the higher education enhancement. Recognized by UGC and approved by AICTE, NCTE, BCI as well as certified by ISO: 9001:2008, being a member of AIU, the institutional vision of this University reflect upon various initiatives to provide literal, legal, managerial and scientific knowledge to the students generating high morals, ethics and values with cultural heritage in them by helping the society in nation building through nurturing and strengthening the young talents for being the trust-worthy citizens of tomorrow. 

 

As the contribution extends towards the positive attitude of these students of the university it is necessary to put forward the step of motivational standards as well as high inspiration and help sustain the society thereby eventually reshaping the world of today itself. This will definitely provide the platform and opportunity for the managerial, cultural, scientific & developmental growth among the youth for the programmes of knowledge and innovation with a successful and grand achievement. CVRU owes the responsibility to explore the new domains of knowledge and seeks the new insights in creating significant competitive environment.This helps the university to obtain the wisdom of promising mission and vision. The CVRU mission is also envisaged to provide online teaching learning facilities for its students through its learning centers, thereby improving their approach and skills towards higher studies. Keeping in view the vision, mission and objectives, the university offers many academic programmes. While designing the curriculum of the academic programmes, the respective board of studies takes into consideration the vision towards national development, needs of the society, local needs, emerging needs and demands, expectations of stakeholders, innovativeness programme level standards, scope for further research, global demand, women empowerment, contemporary needs of the industry, inclusiveness and so on. The academic programmes of the university such as courses in engineering, management commerce, and technology are offered to help the industry and business background. The programs of social work, sociology, political science, law, philosophy, journalism and mass communication are offered towards the development of the society. The academic programs in all basic science are offered to promote scientific research in the community and the programs in languages are offered to develop the communication skills. Some collaborative programs, multi-disciplinary vocational courses, skill development programs (B.Voc./M.Voc.) as well as value added and enrichment courses of academic interests are also offered to meet the contemporary needs of the economy and the society. Thus, the university academic programmes are highly relevant to the need of the industry, economy and society. In addition, many programs offered through distance learning provide access to higher education to all those who do not otherwise find an opportunity. In this regard, CVRU for the students in the regular mode also provides NPTEL audio/video lectures to all branches of its engineering and diploma programmes.

 

These lectures Endeavour to instil self-employment skills in a large section of the students. The university has collaborated with IT Giant Microsoft for enhancing the course curricular activities. It provides office 365(A2)SKU for all the faculties and students. The university has also setup a community Radio station named “RADIO RAMAN” at 90.4 FM under the department of Journalism and Mass Communication with a specific objective to broadcast the necessary content of education oriented knowledge based entertainment focussing on the basic rights and needs of the local community in terms of education, health and law including the current keen demands to benefit the society. Through this community Radio, CVRU utilizes the technology in order to impart the educational content also to those students who are staying apart at far off locations. The radio station endeavors to give an extended foresighted vision & dimension to higher education system and orient the students towards community services. CVRU is also associated to the spoken tutorial project for its curriculum design and development, which is funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India and project headed by IIT, Mumbai. It provides a series of tutorials and software such as Latex, SciLab, GNU/Linux, URCA etc. The University takes specific care to integrate the graduate attributes like communicative skills, leadership quality, value based education, scientific temperament, tolerance, teamwork, skilful knowledge, personality built-up, recreation, amusement, sporty spirit, peaceful coexistence, inductive and creative environment through curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The ICT infrastructure at CVRU has enabled online access to e-books, encyclopedia and many more online Journals.

 

CVRU has made itself to act upon its viable principles in its perspective of having dynamic education with significant harmony pertaining skill-based knowledge in each discipline of the University enabling its vision & mission to reflect in its academic programmes.