About Us
Banasthali Vidyapith is a fully residential women's university which offers an integrated system extending from the primary to the Ph.D. level.
It was on
October 6, 1935 that Smt. Ratan Shastri and Pandit Hiralal Shastri founded
Banasthali to fill up the vacuum caused by the sudden death of their highly
talented and promising daughter Shantabai. They had high expectations that she
would work for women's cause when she would grow up. But destiny ordained
otherwise. Thus, Banasthali owes its existence neither to the zeal of an educationist, nor to that of a social reformer. It is also not the creation of a Philanthropist's purse. It has arisen like the fabled phoenix from the ashes of a blossoming flower Shantabai.
Banasthali
is one of the five universities in India meant exclusively for Women. Over these
seventy five years Banasthali has developed into a National Centre for women's
education. Banasthali's educational programme aims at an all-round development
of the student's personality. To achieve its objective of 'synthesis of
spiritual values and scientific achievements of the East and the West', it has
evolved Five-fold Educational Programme (Panchmukhi Shiksha)
comprising of the following aspects : (i) Physical, (ii) Practical, (iii)
Aesthetic, (iv) Moral and (v) Intellectual. This way the students develop an
integrated and balanced personality.
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