Later on, its jurisdiction was extended to seven tribal-dominated districts of Indore division namely, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar, Khargone, Khandwa, Burhanpur and Barwani.

The university has its administrative offices and primary school campus on Rabindranath Tagore Marg in Indore.

The university has more than 300 affiliated colleges imparting education at under-graduate and post-graduate levels in basic and professional disciplines.

During the initial stages of its development 1964–1984, university established conventional School of Studies in Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Chemistry.

University is one of the first in starting as early as 1991 the experiment of self-supporting courses in order to have partial support for the development of infrastructure.

This experiment has certainly made a positive impact on the overall development of the university both in terms of employment opportunities on one side and students needs on the other.

Recent Initiatives : University has initiated major thrust from Aug. 2006 for it is installing LCD Projectors and Internet access points in all class rooms, e-management of the university, e-submission of fees and forms by the students, Wi-Fi Campus and Hostels, e-grant of migration and eligibility certificates to students and establishment of e-record room.

It is expected that this move will mitigate student hard ship in getting administrative services from University and facilitate its employees to work with latest Computers, Servers and Internet.

The university also operates on a system of affiliated colleges, wherein semi independent institutions are associated with DAVV, adhering to its academic regulations and curriculum.

These colleges offer various undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with examinations conducted by the university and degrees awarded under its emblem.

These affiliations contribute to the diversity of academic programs available under the aegis of DAVV Indore, extending its educational reach across various disciplines.

University has also taken one of the first few initiatives in the country in 1998 for setting an Information Technology Center (ITC) with fiber backbone spread all over the campuses and advanced the then fast switches and router based network.

ITC has been completed with the provision of high speed Internet access and best of the computing resources for the university students, faculty, research scholars and staff round the clock.

Under UGC-INFONET scheme, from Jan 2004, UGC has provided university free subscription to the various e-journals along with 2 Mbit/s bandwidth through ERNET.

The auditorium is available for use by DAVV members, governments, and statutory bodies, national, regional, international and other recognized institutions.

For this university have a separate committee of deans which suggest ways to streamline the entire process of Ph.D. thesis evaluation mechanism.

Gyanvani stations operate as media cooperative with day-to-day programmes being contributed by educational institutions, NGOs, government and semi-government organizations, UN agencies, ministries such as Agriculture, Environment, Health, Women and Child Welfare, Science & Technology etc.