An Act to establish and incorporate a University to conduct and facilitate affiliation of institutions set up by the Government and /or the Trust or Society in the conventional as well as new frontiers of professional education, for example, Engineering & Technology including information Technology, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, Management, Medicine, Health Technology, Public Health, Pharmacy, Optometry, Nursing, Education, Law etc., and also to achieve excellence in teaching, research and estension work in these areas and other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Bihar in the Fifty-Ninth year of the Republic of India as follows-

1. Short title, Extent and commencement -
(1) This Act may be called the Aryabhatta Knowledge University Act, 2008. (2) It shall extend to whole of the State of Bihar. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.