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(0) This Act may be called the Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University Short ute and (2) It shall cone into force at once. COMnencen1Cnt PUNJAB GOVT GAZ. (EXTRA), MAY 15, 2008 81 (VYSK 25, 1930 SAKA) J— PART 1 DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. PUNJAB Notification The 15th May, 2008 No. 23-Leg/2008.—The following Act of the Legislature of the State of punjab received the assent of Governor of Punjab on the 25th April. 2008. and 15 hereby published for general information :- THE SRIGURU GRANTH SAHIB WORLD UNIVERSITY ACT, 2008 (Punjab Act No. 20 of 2008) AN ACT 10 establish and incorporate a University in the State of Punjab to be known as the Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, for the purposes of making provisions for study, research, teaching in the areas of world religions, cultures and civilizations and other courses under the general heads of the arts and humanities, social sciences, pure sciences, applied sciences, medical sciences, engineering sciences and for focusing stress on the emerging disciplines such as information technology. biotechnology. nanotechnology, ecology, human rights, feminism and empowerment of the down-trodden and to provide for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Whereas the 400th anniversary of the compilation of Sri Adi Guru Granth Sahib and its installation in Sri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar, by Guru Arjun Dev. the fifth Prophet of Sikhism. was globally celebrated in the year. 2004 CE : Whereas to commemorate this event. the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Fourth Centenary Memorial Trust created under the Indian Trust Act. 1882. sponsored and made a proposal to the State Government for setting up a private U niversity in the State of Punjab : Whereas the State Government. after due consideration has come to the conclusion that Sri Guru Granth Sahib Fourth Centenary Memorial Trust, for and on behalf of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, is capable of establishing and running the University for the objectives mentioned in the first para, and has. therefore, accepted the proposal for the establishment of the said private University : And whereas, in these circumstances, itis deemed expedient to establish Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University for the aforesaid purposes. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India.