Section 3:
Establishment of Universities.
(1) The following deemed to be Universities shall be
established as three separate Central Universities as under:—
(a) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, along with its campuses as specified in the
First Schedule, shall be established as a body corporate under this Act by the name of “the Central
Sanskrit University”,which shall have its headquarters in New Delhi;
(b) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya SanskritVidyapeeth, New Delhishall be established as a
body corporate under this Act by the name of “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit
University”, which shall have its headquarters in New Delhi;
(c) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati shall be established as a body corporate under
this Act by the name of “the National Sanskrit University”, which shall have its headquarters in
Tirupati.
(2) The Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and the members of the Executive Council and of the
Academic Council of each University, and all persons who may here after become such officers or
members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body
corporate by the name of the University.
(3) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued
by the said name.