Pt. Sundarlal Sharma Open University Chhattisgarh (PSSOU), Bilaspur was established in 2005.

The main aim of the university is to provide wide scope and development to the university, responsibility lies with the chief minister Dr. Raman Singh who emphatically expressed that study centers of the university will be opened from in the far flung areas of the state, especially in the tribal belt from Bastar to Sarguja.

The State Government has promised to render all possible help in the consolidation of the university and in achieving its goals.

The academy of PSSOU aims at educating more and more people of rural socially economically backwards and to those who have craving for education but can’t manage to go far in distant big cities.

The University has and shall continuously strive for improving the credibility and quality of the system.

The mission of the university is to serve the nation by contributing to its socio-economic-ethical transformation through creation of world class educational facilities in various disciplines of education at all levels.