Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha(Deemed to be University) has been established as Central University and start functioning as Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi-16 w.e.f from 30th April, 2020 under the Central Sanskrit Universities Act,2020( no.5 of 2020 dated: 25th March,2020) as enacted by the Parliament and assented to by the President of India and duly published in the Gazette of India by the Ministry of Law & Justice, Govt. of India, Legislative department followed by the Gazette Notification F.No. 4-4/2018-Skt-II dated: 17.04.2020 of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education(Language Division, New Delhi)