Section 1
Short title and commencement.
The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Act, 1996
About this Act
An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching University for the promotion and development of Hindi language and literature, through teaching and research, with a view to enabling Hindi to achieve greater functional efficiency and recognition as a major international language and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) This Act may be called the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya
Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Act, 1996.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes
1. 29th December, 1997, vide notification No. S.O. 912(E), dated 29th November, 1997, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec. 3(ii).