MGAHVThe objects of the university shall be to promote and develop Hindi language and literature in general and for that purpose, to provide for instructional and research facilities in the relevant branches of learning; to provide for active pursuit of comparative studies and research in Hindi and other Indian languages to create facilities for development and dissemination of relevant information in the country and abroad; to offer programs of Research Education and Training in areas like Translation, Interpretation and Linguistics for providing the functional effectiveness of Hindi; to reach out to Hindi scholars and groups interested in Hindi abroad and to associate them in teaching and research and to popularize Hindi through Distance Education System.

MGAHV: A Unique and Alternative Institution

It has been the great desire of the national leaders as well as the Hindi well-wishers that Hindi should occupy its rightful status on international forum of United Nations to express the sentiments and feelings of the Indian people. Secondly, they also visualized to set up an International Secretariat for Hindi to coordinate the linguistic communication not only among the people of Indian origin spread over five countries but also in the whole world. There was also a vision to establish a Central Hindi University to promote and develop Hindi to its fullest potentiality as an International language.

This vision was materialized in the year 1997 with the establishment of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) at Wardha, Maharashtra,the Karamabhoomi of Mahatma Gandhi.It seems that the other two visions already mentioned would also take shape through the MGAHV

MGAHV came into existence in the last decade of the second millennium and is poised to start functioning with full vigour and vitality during the first decade of the new millennium As a matter of fact; it is at the crossroads. The knowledge of India has to be further strengthened for which innovative alternatives are being thought out. MGAHV is conceived as an alternative institution of Education. It is the outcome of a lateral thinking process using value- engineering techniques to achieve Gemba- kaizen-the continuous effort for the innovation of educational techniques and processes with the cost effective policies. The very name Mahatma Gandhi prompts the University to prepare curricular like studies in Non- Violence and Peace, Women’s Studies, Hindi as an alternative language for technology and business. Gandhism aims at Providing Opportunity for personal and social fulfillment in unison. Ethical behavior, world fraternity and cultural interaction are the basic tenets of Gandhian thoughts. MGAHVs curricula and programs incorporate these components through out. Therefore, the Gandhian philosophy will amply be reflected in MGAHVs work culture, curricula and administrative system. It can be safely said that MGAHV is a unique university which is conceived as universal in knowledge base and international in its spread. It would be mainly a residential University, but may have its study centre across the country and abroad too. The MGAHV positions itself as an International Platform to provide various courses of higher education seeped in Indian ethos and traditions, combines with the modern technologies to achieve its covered goals.