The short answer: Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg is a public state university in Chhattisgarh. It was created in 2015, when the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2015 split Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University and set up a second university in the same region under the name Durg Vishwavidyalaya. It got its present name in 2018, announced on 12 April, the day after the death of Hemchand Yadav, a Chhattisgarh cabinet minister and long-serving Durg MLA. The university does not examine students the way a distance-education body does: it affiliates colleges, and its own teaching departments run programmes such as B.Ed. and B.Sc.-B.Ed. Its results, admit cards, revaluation outcomes and question papers publish on its own portal at durguniversity.ac.in, and this site does not mirror them.
The institution at a glance
| Field | Position | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg (हेमचंद यादव विश्वविद्यालय, दुर्ग) | Official site, checked 2 October 2026. |
| Former name | Durg Vishwavidyalaya | Encyclopaedic record, checked 2 October 2026. |
| Type | Public state university | Encyclopaedic record. |
| Established | 2015, by the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2015 | Encyclopaedic record citing the Act. |
| Renamed | Announced 12 April 2018; effective later that year through the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2018 | Encyclopaedic record. |
| Parent it was carved from | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur | Encyclopaedic record. |
| Affiliation | University Grants Commission | Encyclopaedic record. |
| Chancellor | The Governor of Chhattisgarh, ex officio; the site names Ramen Deka | Official site, checked 2 October 2026. |
| Vice-chancellor | Prof. Sanjay Tiwari | Official site, checked 2 October 2026. |
| Campus | Raipur Naka, Durg, in the former Girls' Post-Graduate College building | Official site and encyclopaedic record. |
| Affiliated colleges | 158 as of 2024, of which 84 government | Encyclopaedic record; not reconciled by us against the university's own college list. |
How a bifurcation created it
The university exists because one older university was split. Chhattisgarh's assembly passed the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2015, an amendment Act that bifurcated Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur and created a new university at Durg covering the southern part of the state. The territory was set out in the same instrument: the districts of Durg, Balod, Bemetara, Rajnandgaon and Kabirdham. Narendra Prasad Dixit was the first vice-chancellor of the new body.
The jurisdiction described in the encyclopaedic record has since been stated more granularly, as Durg, Balod, Bemetara, Rajnandgaon, Mohala-Manpur, Khairagarh and Kabirdham, which reflects the district and division reorganisations Chhattisgarh carried out after 2015. The two lists are not a contradiction; the second is the same region described after new districts were carved out of the old ones.
The renaming, and what a renaming is not
Hemchand Yadav died on 11 April 2018 in Delhi. On 12 April 2018 the state announced that the Durg university would be renamed after him, and the change took legal effect later that year through a second amendment Act. That is the whole of the naming story, and it is worth stating precisely because the two dates get conflated in search: the institution was founded in 2015 and named in 2018. Everything on its academic record before April 2018 was issued under the name Durg Vishwavidyalaya, including the batches that graduated and the colleges that were affiliated before the rename. A reader comparing marksheets or college affiliations across that boundary is looking at two names for one institution, not at two institutions.
A renaming also does not transfer a politician's constituency record to a university's academic one. The university has no electoral history; the man it is named for has one, and it is below.
Who the university is named for
Hemchand Yadav (1 December 1958 – 11 April 2018) was a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Durg, born in Baigapara in what was then Madhya Pradesh and became Chhattisgarh in 2000. He entered the Madhya Pradesh assembly in 1998 from the Durg seat, defeating the Congress's Arun Vora by 3,279 votes, and continued from the same city in the new Chhattisgarh assembly from 2000 to 2013, winning the 2003 election by 22,573 votes; Arun Vora succeeded him in the seat. He served as a cabinet minister in the Raman Singh government from 2003 to 2013, holding Water Resources from December 2003 to December 2013, Transport from July 2004 to December 2008, Food and Civil Supply and Sports and Youth Welfare from July 2004 to June 2005, and Higher and Technical Education with Science and Technology from December 2008 to December 2013.
We do not carry a biography page for him yet, and this article does not pretend to be one. The dates and portfolios above come from the encyclopaedic record cited at the foot of this page, and a profile on this site would need its own sourcing against Chhattisgarh assembly records and candidate declarations before it could be published.
The vice-chancellors since 2015
| Period | Vice-chancellor | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Narendra Prasad Dixit | First vice-chancellor of the new university. |
| 2018 to February 2019 | Shailendra Saraf | Appointed in 2018, resigned in February 2019. |
| After February 2019 | Dilip Wasnikar | Held the office as an additional charge while serving as division commissioner. |
| From September 2019 | Aruna Palta | Appointed in September 2019; still the name in the encyclopaedic infobox we read in October 2026. |
| As of October 2026 | Prof. Sanjay Tiwari | Named on the university's own site, checked 2 October 2026. |
The gap between the last two rows is the reason this table exists. An encyclopaedic infobox is a snapshot, and for a post held at pleasure of the government it goes stale silently. Anyone relying on a vice-chancellor's name on a certificate, gazette notification or examination paper should read the office from the university site, not from a secondary article.
What the university actually runs
Two functions sit inside it. The first is affiliation: 158 colleges were counted under it as of 2024, 84 of them government colleges, and the named examples in the record include the Government Vishwanath Yadav Tamaskar Autonomous College in Durg and Rungta College in Bhilai. A student enrolled at an affiliated college is examined on that college's schedule and the university's regulations, which is why result dates for one roll number and another can differ by weeks.
The second is its own teaching and programme side. The university's noticeboard on the day we checked it carried an enrollment-application window for B.Ed. and B.Sc.-B.Ed. sessions, a reopened admission portal for the 2026-27 session, department-of-physical-education and National Service Scheme sections, committee meeting notices such as a research-department committee sitting for the Geography department, and a state, inter-collegiate and AIU academic calendar for 2026-27. It also carried two result notices: a revaluation outcome for named parts of B.A., B.Ed., B.Sc.-B.Ed., B.Sc. (Home Science), a postgraduate diploma and an M.Phil programme, and a withheld-results notice covering annual, semester, ATKT and supply examinations across sessions from 2019 to 2025.
Where results, admit cards and question papers publish
The direct answer, in the order a candidate needs it:
- The student portal on durguniversity.ac.in. Result declarations, revaluation outcomes and withheld-status notices are posted there against examination sections, and the site keeps an Online Eligibility and admission section for the current session.
- The college. For an affiliated-college student, the examining college holds the practical, internal and eligibility components, which is where a missing result is usually resolved before the university is contacted.
- The noticeboard, by date. Withheld-result notices list the session and the paper type; that is the fastest way to see whether a result is pending because of an unfilled form, a fee, or a supplementary paper not yet declared.
We do not mirror exam outputs, and no page on this site will. A copied marksheet goes stale within the week it is posted, an error in a reproduced grade is not a typo, and a third-party mirror is a place where a candidate's roll number and date of birth get collected for purposes that have nothing to do with results. YadavNews covers the Yadav community's public record: its politics, its movements, its names in office and in culture. A university that carries a Yadav name belongs in that record as an institution, which is what this page is for. Its marksheet does not.
Verification notes
Institutional facts above are drawn from two places, both checked on 2 October 2026: the university's own site for the present chancellor, the present vice-chancellor, the campus address and the noticeboard content, and the encyclopaedic article for the 2015 bifurcation, the 2018 renaming, the first vice-chancellor, the succession of vice-chancellors and the 2024 college count. The person dates, seats, margins and portfolios come from the encyclopaedic article on Hemchand Yadav, whose own death date (11 April 2018) is the anchor for the renaming announcement the following day. The college count is printed as an encyclopaedic 2024 figure and we have not reconciled it against the university's own affiliated-college list; that list is live on the site and changes with each affiliation cycle. Noticeboard items are described as they appeared on the day of the check, and a notice that was up on 2 October 2026 may not be up when you read this.