Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University,
now gets established under Punjab State Act 20 of 2008

After passage of the University Bill by the Punjab Legislative Assembly and consent of the Governor of Punjab, the University now gets statutory character, through the Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University Act (Punjab State Act 20 of 2008).

SGPC Chief, Sardar Avtar Singh, President of the Trust, becomes the first chancellor of the University.

Dr. Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia has taken over as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University w.e.f June 6, 2008.
         
Dr. Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading Sikh scholar and Punjab writer, with over three dozen books, in Punjabi and English. He has been recognized in the history of Punjabi literature as a pioneer of a literary era known as the modernist phase. He was honored by the State Government in 1997 with Shiromani Punjabi Sahitkar Purskar.

His seminal book The Sovereignty of the Sikh Doctrine is considered an authoritative text on Sikh philosophy. His latest book, Liberating Sikhism from ‘the Sikhs’, created a stir in national and international academic circles.

Dr. Ahluwalia has extensively lectured abroad on Indian Philosophy, Sikhism and Punjabi Literature since 1973 when he represented India at the P.E.N.’s International Writers Conference in Moscow. The University of California, Berkeley, invited him for a series of lectures in 2000. He was deputed as one of the two observers from Punjab, to participate in the Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the U.N. headquarters in 2000. He served on the International Editorial Board of WORLD FAITHS ENCOUNTER, a journal of the World Congress of Faiths (U.K.) and has the distinction of being the only Indian taken on the panel of International Consultants for International Interfaith Centre, Oxford.

Dr. Ahluwalia is presently President of Guru Gobind Singh Foundation, Chandigarh and Member Secretary, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Fourth Centenary Memorial Trust (a unit of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Amritsar) created for establishing Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, at Fatehgarh Sahib.

The University will become functional from the next year July session, in respect of the following Disciplines: Sri Guru Granth Sahib Studies; Information Technology; Nanotechnology; Biotechnology and Management.