Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (D.S.V.V.) is a non-conventional centre of higher learning, education and research. It is an exceptional creation, which has born out of a unique vision of the ground-breaking scholar and visionary, Pt Shriram Sharma Acharya Ji (1911-1990), who was also a renowned social reformer and a celebrated freedom fighter. He was honoured by the Government of India for his meritorious services by releasing a postal stamp in his memory in the year 1991. He had the vision to establish a university devoted to the preservation and propagation of the Indian Culture, which to him was Dev Sanskriti, that could combine the precepts of practical knowledge (Shiksha) and spiritual education (vidya) to create truly enlightened individuals.

Pt Shriram Sharma Acharya believed that there is a need for an educational institution, which could mould its students into noble and enlightened human beings; selfless, warm-hearted, compassionate and kind. To achieve these goals that he had set in his lifetime for the radical change in the field of higher education; after he attained Samadhi in June 1990, his admirers and followers resolved to translate his vision into action by establishing a university and naming it as Dev Sanskriti. Acharya’s silent revolutionary movement is now well established as Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, which works with a primary focus of providing a confluence of modern education with the installation of human values in the students. The students are expected to follow a simple, spiritual lifestyle and they receive benefits from both; state of the art facilities and the wisdom of ancient traditional practices. This allows the university to provide noble citizens, who would channel their efforts towards the goal of a divine, value-based society. The university was established in the year 2002 based on an act (22.01.2002) passed by the state legislature of the Uttarakhand and notified in the gazette vide notification no. (123/vidhayi & sansadiya karya/2002 dated 11.04.2002). The university is duly recognized by the University Grants Commission and is privately sponsored by Shri Vedmata Gayatri Trust, Shantikunj, a renowned socio-spiritual organization. Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya remains devoted to its founding principles. This has established the university as an epitome of moral and technical education and has very pertinently addressed the need of academia of having an institution, which can extend solutions to modern-day problems with ancestral wisdom and can contribute to building the future of the country.