Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha - Tirupati

National Sanskrit University at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh goes back to the Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Society constituted there in 1961, following a Sanskrit Commission recommendation, with the foundation stone laid in January 1962 on land leased by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. It came under Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in 1971, was raised to deemed university status in 1987 and renamed Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, and became a central university on 30 April 2020 under its present name.