{"id":42804,"date":"2021-05-29T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgu.ipsrwebhosting.com\/?page_id=42804"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:06:16","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/about\/overview\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahatma Gandhi University\u00a0(commonly referred to as\u00a0MG University\u00a0or\u00a0MGU) is a Government University\u00a0established by the Govt of\u00a0<a title=\"Kerala\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kerala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kerala&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622344296835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQ46Lj0Cm71I5EAhAn8Y2UvJz5lQ\">Kerala<\/a>. It was established on\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gandhi_Jayanti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gandhi_Jayanti&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622344296835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYnCXJu_pbvIWOhcHhxawpTaW9Hg\">Gandhi Jayanti<\/a> Day, 2 October 1983 in the\u00a0<a title=\"Kottayam district\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kottayam_district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kottayam_district&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622344296835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNQ7ZoZXnT6hfp6MpV7OSPETRKNA\">Kottayam district<\/a>\u00a0of Kerala state.\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi University (formerly Gandhiji University), has been approved by\u00a0<a title=\"Public university\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_Grants_Commission_(India)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_Grants_Commission_(India)&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622344296835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEIiQNvXZU4q3RcLfOt3AgxWwJHeQ\">UGC<\/a> and accredited (A++) by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India. The university has around 300 affiliated colleges spread over five districts in the central Travancore of Kerala. University having 30 Statutory teaching schools\/Departments and one\u00a0 International Inter-University Centre and 17 Inter-University\/Inter School centres and approximately 50 faculties for doing Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi University\u00a0(commonly referred to as\u00a0MG University\u00a0or\u00a0MGU) is a Government University\u00a0established by the Govt of\u00a0Kerala. It was established on\u00a0Gandhi Jayanti Day, 2 October 1983 in the\u00a0Kottayam district\u00a0of Kerala state.\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi University (formerly Gandhiji University), has been approved by\u00a0UGC and accredited (A++) by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India. The university has around 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81571,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42804\/revisions\/81571"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}