Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (LUVAS) was established by Haryana Legislature Act No. 7 of 2010 after carving out from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar on December 1, 2010. The University has two constituent colleges and one institute of Para veterinary Sciences. College of Veterinary Sciences (COVS) is the initial academic unit of the University engaged in graduate, postgraduate and doctoral education, research and extension education in veterinary and animal sciences. The College has its roots in the first Veterinary School established at Lahore in the undivided India in the year 1882. With the formation of Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) in 1970, the college became a part of HAU. The College became constituent college after creation of Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences on 01 December 2010. Through its academic excellence, the College has produced great human resource. A large number of its alumni have been topmost functionaries in many prestigious academic and research institutions in India and abroad. Apart from this, the graduates and postgraduates of this College have contributed significantly to the White Revolution and food security in the state and the country. College of Dairy Sciences and Technology (CODST) is the second constituent college of LUVAS, Hisar opened from the academic session 2016-17 with the approval of Government and first college of Dairy Science and Technology in Haryana state. It was approved by BOM vide Item No. B-3 in 6th Meeting held on 25.11.2013. Primary mission of college is to develop highly professional dairy specialists through value based education, research and training in dairy technology for meeting technological and societal needs. The Institute of Para Veterinary Sciences (IPVS) was established in February, 2014 with a sense of clarity and purpose of producing Para- Veterinarians to assist the Registered Veterinary Practitioners. The Institute is running various diploma courses each of two-year duration, namely, Veterinary Livestock Development Diploma (VLDD) and Diploma in Veterinary Laboratory Technology (DVLT). At present, 11 private colleges have been affiliated to LUVAS for degree and diploma courses. The University is confident to grow by adding other allied faculties� viz. Fisheries, Animal Biotechnology, Livestock and Rural Management in a phased manner. It intends to establish a state-of-the-art super speciality diagnostic laboratory-cum-epidemiological centre with BSL-3 facilities to monitor emerging and re-emerging diseases. The university is also planning to establish Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Central Animal House Facility and Post-mortem Centre with state-of-the-art facilities. The University is working with the line departments for active co-operation and collaboration for quick transmission of technology from laboratory to end users and strengthen extension services. The Government of Haryana has allotted land in Hisar to raise an ultramodern new campus of the University for which foundation stone has already been laid. The college of Dairy Science and Technology is near completion and the construction work of the Administrative Block is in progress. The new campus is intended to be environmental friendly, energy efficient based on vertical expansion and green building concept.

The University is performing following functions:

(a) To provide facilities for instruction, training and research in veterinary, animal sciences, fishery sciences and allied sciences and to achieve excellence therein and connected fields;

(b) To provide for dissemination of the findings of research and technical information through extension education;

(c) To institute degree, diploma, certificate and other academic distinction in veterinary, animal sciences, fishery sciences and allied sciences;

(d) To hold examination and to confer degree, diploma, certificate and other academic distinction on person, who has:-

(i) Pursued a particular course of study; or

(ii) Carried out research in the University in the manner, as may be prescribed;

(e) To confer honorary degree or other academic distinction in the manner, as may be prescribed;

(f) To arrange lectures and instructions for field workers, live-stock farmers and other persons, not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them, if necessary;

(g) To co-operate with other universities, institutions, organizations and authorities in such manner and for such purposes, as may be determined;

(h) To establish and maintain college and an institution relating to veterinary, animal sciences, fishery sciences and allied sciences;

(i) To affiliate any college or an institution to the University and to withdraw affiliation therefrom;

(j) To establish and maintain laboratories, libraries, research stations, processing plants and museums for teaching, research and extension education;

(k) To institute, suspend or abolish Professorship, Associate Professorship, Assistant Professorship, Teachership and other teaching, research and extension posts in the University and to make suitable appointments thereto;

(l) To create, suspend or abolish administrative and other posts and to appoint persons to such posts;

(m) To institute, abolish or suspend fellowships, scholarships, studentships, bursaries, exhibitions, medals and prizes in accordance with the Statutes and Regulations and to undertake publication of work of merit and research pertaining to research in veterinary, animal sciences, fishery sciences and allied sciences;

(n) To establish and maintain hostels for students of the University;

(o) To establish and maintain residential accommodation for the employees of the University;

(p) To determine, demand and receive such fees and other charges, as may be prescribed;

(q) To supervise, control and regulate the conduct and discipline of the students of the University and affiliated colleges;

(r) To manage and control the movable and immovable properties of the University;

(s) To receive gifts, donations or benefactions in cash or kind from the Government or a person and to create corpus fund for the welfare of the University; Provided that no donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any individual in such country or foundation shall be accepted by the University, save with the approval of the State Government or other competent authority;

(t) To accept grant from any institution or any other authority recognized by Government of India and the State Government;

(u) To borrow money with or without security for the purposes approved by the State Government, from the Central Government, any other State Government, Indian Council of Agricultural Research or any other incorporated body, subject to the provisions of this Act;

(v) To maintain an employment bureau; and

(w) To do all such other acts and things, whether incidental to the functions aforesaid or not, as may be required in order to further the objects of the University.