Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow has been established by an Act (No. 25 of 2010) of State Legislature of Uttar Pradesh as self-financed and a State Private University. It has been provided letter no 8-30/2010 (CPP-I/PU) dated 17 February, 2011by UGC, which empowers it to award degrees under section 22 of the UGC act 1956. Babu Banarasi Das Educational Society is an administering body for it. The university has been founded after the name of Babu Banarasi Das Ji, a nationalist.