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The Rajasthan Vidyapeeth was established in 1937 by Late pt. Janardan Rai Nagar and his associates to impart education to the downtrodden and economically handicapped. By and By it grew into a complete educational institutions in southern and eastern part of Rajasthan, i.e. at Udaipur, Ajmer, Jhadol, Kota, Hatundi etc.
The Rajasthan Vidyapeeth has traveled a long way from literacy to the realm of Higher Education and being recognized for its extra-ordinary work in the field of Adult and Continuing Education and its contributions in Research and Education. It got the status of Deemed-to-be University in 1987.
The Rajasthan Vidyapeeth ‘Kul’ the parent body got its following units registered separately as ‘Rajasthan Vidyapeeth’ to become a self governing society under the Rajasthan Society Registration Act, 1958:

Early sixties proved to be the landmark in the history of Rajasthan Vidyapeeth when it decided to meet the challenges, which started springing up after independence. The first Prime Minister of India had deep faith in democracy and he decided to spread the message of sharing responsibilities at the grass-root level. As a result the Panchayati Raj institutions came into existence. Rajasthan Vidyapeeth also decided to join hands with the GOI to share this responsibility and established Community Centres Department and Janata College during the Second Five -Year Plan. The objective was to provide benefits to the people of remote villages. It was the beginning of the full-fledged Institute of Adult & Continuing Education. During this period, Vidyapeeth started a new unit, which is called JANPAD, with the objective of propagating the knowledge of day-to-day local and national affairs for the urban society through black-board / broadcast service mass communication being the aim.

The institution is not only spreading its wings of education in the country itself but has also entered into the area of international studies through academic exchange of its students and faculty members to Slippery Rock University a prestigious University of USA. This is a step forward to the academic excellence and towards providing opportunity to the academic excellence and towards providing opportunity to the students and teachers of Rajasthan Vidyapeeth.