The University of Kashmir was founded in 1948 as a Public State University called The University of Jammu & Kashmir. In 1969 it was bifurcated into two separate independent Universities; one known as University of Kashmir at Srinagar and the other as University of Jammu at Jammu. University of Kashmir spread over 247 acres of land (Main Campus) divided into three parts of Hazratbal, Mirza Bagh and Naseem Bagh, besides commissioning during 2014 Institute of Technology Zakura on 37.5 acres of land (known as Zakura Campus). Having its academic affiliations with UGC, AIU, AICTE and ACU it has established itself as a major institution of higher learning in the region. It has about 35 Teaching Departments and Research Centres. To improve access to higher education it is running three satellites campuses at Anantnag (South Campus), Baramulla (North Campus) and Kupwara (Kupwara Campus).

However, in response to an application filed under Right To Information Act (RTI) by a Jammu based RTI........

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