(1) to study and undertake research in the works of pioneering educationists of Gujarat, India as also of other parts of the world, who have underlined the need for child-centered holistic education so as to derive guidance from the same;
(2) to promote the fundamental duties laid down in article 51A of the Constitution of India;
Objects of University.
1. These words were substituted for the words “Children’s University” by Guj. 12 of 2023, s.5(i).
2. These words were substituted for the words “Children’s University”, ibid., s.5(ii).
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(3) to foster in the University highest purposes of education of the body, life and mind as also of the human spirit in its integrality;
(4) to promote synthesis of scientific realism and artistic creativity;
(5) to recover the lights from lessons of ancient wisdom in the context of modern developments;
(6) to establish facilities, programmes and activities of research, education, training and extension services that promote all levels of child's development, including at the primary and secondary levels of education;
(7) to introduce and nurture innovations in the education system so as to reflect India's spiritual knowledge, robust intellectuality and inexhaustible creativity;
(8) to study and derive lessons from the ongoing experiments of education that are taking place in Gujarat as also elsewhere and to foster all the valuable innovative work and promote the same for larger expansion and utilization.
Powers and functions of University.