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Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University was established as a State University vide U.P. State Government notification no.(10)/(865)/15/(75)(85)/64 dated 23 November 1973. It has a rare distinction of taking birth through a powerful popular movement during early seventies in last century. This movement symbolized the hopes and aspirations of the masses of the region of Garhwal for the development through the instrument of higher education. The people of this remote mountainous region agitated for opening a University at a small but historic semi rural town of Srinagar. It was an expression of the quest for empowering their future generations for overcoming endemic economic and social backwardness geographic and environmental constrains re-assertion of cultural identity and harnessing of the local natural and human resources for development.