Gandhi Vidya Mandir was established in 1950 by the munificence of Shri Kanhaiyalal Dugar (late Swami Shri Ramsharanji Maharaj) and the local gentry on a tract of 1190 acres, three kilometres east of Sardarshahr, a tehsil of Churu district. In the formative stage a great Sanskrit scholar and former Education and Railway Minister of Bikaner State Acharya Gauri Shankar Sharma was associated with it, while many leading luminaries in the country’s educational and social service fields like Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Aryanayakam, kishorilal Mashruwala and Shriman Narayan. As the name of Mahatma Gandhi is associated with that of the institution, it has to pay attention to the values of self help and manual labour as a part of education. Situated in a rural area, it has to continue the work in the cause of education, particularly for the poor.

• GVM is one of the few educational institutions which have taken interest in the education of children from balwadi to post-graduate and doctoral stage, Boys Senior Higher Secondary School, Ayurvedic College and Training College have afforded excellent opportunities to the people of Rajasthan and elsewhere to pursue education in rural surroundings. The Gramoday department, geared to the promotion of integrated rural development, made contribution also in relating education to the challenges of national development.

The institution has ever been trying to reach new horizons in the fields of education, health, social service and rural uplift.

The Basic Teachers Training College has almost from the beginning been an essential and flagship unit of GVM. It was founded in 1953, with the then prevailing TTC course, in 1954 the course was replaced by Basic STC, in 1956 the degree course in Education was introduced, in 1960 the College was upgraded to the Post-Graduate level, in 1968 the facility for Ph.D. was added.