Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) is a public University in Asansol, West Bengal. The university has been named after the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The university was established under Kazi Nazrul University Act, 2012. Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata gazette, extraordinary 16 August 2012.[11] The University has been founded with a vision. The vision is to function efficiently as a university encouraging and providing instructions, teaching, training, and research in various branches of learning and courses of study for promoting advancement and dissemination of knowledge and extending higher education to meet the growing needs of society.

There was a demand for a university in the area for a long time. The setting up of Kazi Nazrul University was primarily intended at responding to these local-material needs of democratizing higher education, outside of urban-metropolitan centers of cultural dominance. Professor Anuradha Mukhopadhyay, the first Vice-Chancellor, assumed office on 3 December 2012 at the Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) building. On 10 January 2013, the Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Smt. Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone of Kazi Nazrul University on its own campus, close to the birthplace of Kazi Nazrul Islam at Churulia, 31 kilometers away from the city of Asansol. Anuradha Mukherjee was the first vice-chancellor of Kazi Nazrul University.

In July 2013, the University inaugurated its teaching programs by commencing post-graduation classes in four core disciplines – Bengali, English, History, and Mathematics – with about one hundred and twenty students. In the academic session 2014-15 four new Postgraduate courses, including M.A in Education, Hindi, Political Science & M.Com., had been introduced. Professor Sadhan Chakraborti joined as the Vice-Chancellor of Kazi Nazrul University in April 2015. Over time, 17 PG departments have started functioning with all necessary infrastructures on the campus of the university and with an actual intake of 1269 students in the academic year 2018-19. In 2018 in a Special convocation, The University Honored Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina with honorary Doctorate of Literature.
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