Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Ayodhya

Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology (ANDUaT) is a university located in Kumarganj, Ayodhya district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1975 and named after politician and educator Narendra Deva, who served as vice chancellor of the University of Lucknow and Banaras Hindu University. The foundation stone was laid on 15 January 1974 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Masodha near Faizabad. Laxmi Narain Rai was the first officer on special duty, succeeded by A.S. Srivastava in October 1974 and by the first vice-chancellor, A.D. Pandey, in October 1975. In 1975, the Uttar Pradesh government decided that the main campus would be established at Kumarganj, Ayodhya instead of Masodha. The university initially operated from a borrowed building of Gram Swalabi Vidyalaya Acharya Nagar, Naka, Faizabad. The Mahamaya College of Agriculture Engineering and Technology was established in 2002 at Ambedkar Nagar by upgrading the department of Agriculture Engineering in the College of Agriculture. The university's constituent colleges include institutions in Kumarganj, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, and Gonda, covering agriculture, fisheries, community science, horticulture and forestry, and veterinary science and animal husbandry.