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Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University

state public university in Dibrugarh, Assam, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ97959820 ↗
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Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University is a public state university located at Chabua, Dibrugarh district, Assam.

History

The university was established by The Assam Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University Act, 2018 which was passed by the Assam Legislative Assembly on 26 September 2018 and received the assent of the Governor of Assam on 10 December 2018. On 10 July 2020, Jai Prakash Verma took charge as the first vice-chancellor of the university. The university is currently functioning from Dibrugarh University Campus.

Academics

The university offers four-year undergraduate program in Physical Education-BPEd (Hons) course from academic year 2020–21, with exit points after the completion of one, two or three years, which award a certificate, diploma or bachelor's degree, respectively, per the National Education Policy 2020.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University” as state public university in Dibrugarh, Assam, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2020. The account is most persuasive where Aniruddhadeva, Sports and University can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as state public university in Dibrugarh, Assam, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97959820. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2020.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.