TheShaheed Mahendra Karma Vishwavidyalaya, a premier institution of post graduate teaching and research in the state., was established by an Act of 02-Sept. 2008, an Act to amendment the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam 1973 (no. 22 of 1973) as a state University, Wholly financed by the State Government of Chhattisgarh.
The "objects of the University" as envisaged in the Act are:" to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and by the example of its corporate life, and in particular to make special provisions for integrated courses in humanities and science in the educational programs of the University and to take appropriate measures for promoting inter-disciplinary studies and research in the University and to affiliate the colleges in Bastar Revenue Division."
