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UP’s first AYUSH university was created at Gorakhpur by Act 6 of 2020 and renamed in 2021 after Guru Gorakhnath. It is an affiliating State university for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy, and paramedical streams. Objectives include teaching, research, college affiliation and exams, teacher training, and scheme implementation. The Act also requires AYUSH hospitals and patient care, not only degrees. Foundation was laid in 2021; OPD work followed in 2023—quality of affiliation remains the test.
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Introduction
Uttar Pradesh’s first AYUSH university is the State university at Gorakhpur created by Uttar Pradesh Act 6 of 2020, later named Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University. Its nature is an affiliating teaching-and-hospital university for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy and allied paramedical streams, not a general multi-faculty campus.
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Nature
- Act 6 of 2020 set up a State AYUSH University at Gorakhpur; the 2021 renaming fixed the present title after Guru Gorakhnath, tying the campus to eastern UP’s Nath yogic geography.
- It is a public affiliating university: it is meant to teach, examine, and regulate government and private AYUSH colleges that earlier sat under mixed health or general universities.
- Nature includes hospitals and diagnostic work, not only classrooms—Section 5 of the Act asks for multi-disciplinary super-speciality AYUSH hospitals, treatment of patients, and control of attached hospitals, diagnostic centres, and blood banks.
- The site at Pipari–Bhathat, Gorakhpur, is the first dedicated AYUSH university in the State; President Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation in August 2021, and OPD work began in 2023, so the 2023 paper is asking about a newly born institution.
Objectives, as the Act states them
- Disseminate and advance knowledge in Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy, Yoga and Naturopathy, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, nursing, pharmacy, and paramedical sciences, with systematic instruction and research.
- Affiliate, supervise, and examine colleges; run teacher and paramedical training; and implement Union and State AYUSH schemes.
- Facilitate research in traditional and innovative areas so that eastern UP is not only a pilgrim belt but a degree-and-evidence belt for AYUSH.
- Treat patients in university hospitals so that teaching is tied to OPD and inpatient load, not to brochure courses.
Why Gorakhpur, kept sober
- A first university in Gorakhpur corrects the Lucknow–NCR tilt of professional education and sits next to a dense AYUSH-using population in Purvanchal.
- Objectives succeed only if affiliation is strict, pharmacopoeia quality is watched, and the hospital is staffed; a name-change Act is not by itself a faculty.
Nature in one line
- First UP AYUSH university = Gorakhpur affiliating State university + teaching + regulation of colleges + AYUSH hospital, under the 2020 Act.
Flow diagram
flowchart TD Act[Act 6 of 2020] --> Uni[Gorakhpur AYUSH University] Uni --> Teach[Teaching research exams] Uni --> Aff[Affiliate AYUSH colleges] Uni --> Hosp[AYUSH hospitals OPD] Uni --> Sch[Union State schemes]
Conclusion
The first AYUSH university in Uttar Pradesh is the Gorakhpur State university of 2020, now Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University. Its nature is affiliating professional university with hospitals; its objectives are teaching, research, college regulation, scheme delivery, and patient care in AYUSH systems.
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Is this a central university?
No. It is a Uttar Pradesh State university created by a State Act, with affiliating and hospital functions.
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Does ‘first’ mean the first medical college?
No. It means the first dedicated AYUSH university. Medical colleges of modern medicine are a separate stack.
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