Gurukul Vidyapeeth University is a newly legislated self-financed private university in Sikkim. The institution was created through the Gurukul Vidhyapeeth University Act, 2024, with its headquarters designated at Melli in Namchi district. The Act identifies the Council of Software Engineers, a society registered in Delhi, as the sponsoring body and places the university within Sikkim's state private-university framework. Because the university is recent, its most reliable institutional profile comes from its founding legislation rather than a long operating history. The Act establishes it as a non-affiliating university and provides for degree, diploma, research and vocational education. It also allows the university to create or maintain education and training institutions, skill-training centres and centres of excellence, including collaborative arrangements with industry, corporations, associations and other institutions, subject to the law and applicable regulatory standards. The legislation gives the university a strong skills and employability orientation. Its definitions explicitly cover vocational education connected with technical, professional, medical, paramedical and allied areas, while its broader objects provide room for higher education, research and training. The university is designed to be self-financed rather than dependent on regular government grant-in-aid. The 2024 Act also sets out a formal governance framework with a visitor, chancellor, vice-chancellor, governing body, board of management, academic council and other authorities. Importantly, the institution is required to satisfy statutory conditions and obtain the State Government's authorization before commencing operations. Its future academic character will be shaped by the implementation of the Act, regulatory approvals and the development of its Sikkim campus. For students and researchers, the central institutional story is its transition from legislative proposal to a regulated private-university framework at Melli. The Act places the university headquarters at Melli in Namchi district. Council of Software Engineers is identified in the Act as the sponsoring body.