Shantiniketan: Visva-Bharati University The Vice Chancellor is keen to start five schools of studies at his first satellite center at Ramgarh, Nainital from July. Vidyut Chakraborty Said on Friday.
The Uttarakhand government has handed over 45 acres of land free of cost to the university to set up the campus.
Until the campus is ready, the University will function from a temporary campus. Ramgarh was one of Tagore’s favorite vacation spots, where he bought a bungalow on top of a hill. About 10 acres of land on which the bungalow stands is also likely to be given to the university, which plans to convert it into a museum to display Tagore’s work.
It is the centenary year of Visva-Bharati founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan on December 23, 1921. The decision to allot the land was passed by the Uttarakhand cabinet on December 24, 2021, the day the university completed 100 years. Its foundation.
Chakraborty told TOI that he had sought Rs 150 crore from the Centre: Rs 125 crore for the construction of the complex and Rs 25 crore to meet the recurring expenses.
Sources said the center will start functioning with around 650 students in five schools of study: Languages, Arts and Culture, Himalayan Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy and Good Governance. “All schools will be multi-disciplinary,” said Chakraborty.
‘This is nothing but a political gimmick’
Launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the supervision of former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, the Executive Council of Visva-Bharati on June 10, 2020 approved the proposal to set up the new campus at Ramgarh in Nainital district.
Tagore expert Amita Sudan Bhattacharya said that the poet loved Ramgarh so much that the family bought a bungalow there with a garden on top of a hill and named it Haimanti. He also wrote many poems and songs there. Bhattacharya said he also wrote several letters to Ramgarh social reformer CF Andrews and son Rathindranath.
University sources said another 10 acres, which houses the house, will also be transferred to the university. The house is in dilapidated condition and the university plans to convert it into a museum to display Tagore’s works.
Bhattacharya, however, said he did not see any reason to open a second campus in Uttarakhand when the first campus in Santiniketan was in disarray. “It is nothing but a political gimmick. As a Tagore fan, I don’t see anything significant in this initiative,” he said.
Former acting VC Sabuj Kali Sen, during whose tenure the project was conceived, told that she accompanied Pokhriyal at a cultural event in Indonesia in 2018 when she told him about Tagore’s affair with Ramgarh. “He was immediately interested. When he went to Santiniketan a few months later, he expressed his desire to set up a campus. We responded to his suggestion and prepared a proposal,” she recalled.
The Uttarakhand government has handed over 45 acres of land free of cost to the university to set up the campus.
Until the campus is ready, the University will function from a temporary campus. Ramgarh was one of Tagore’s favorite vacation spots, where he bought a bungalow on top of a hill. About 10 acres of land on which the bungalow stands is also likely to be given to the university, which plans to convert it into a museum to display Tagore’s work.
It is the centenary year of Visva-Bharati founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan on December 23, 1921. The decision to allot the land was passed by the Uttarakhand cabinet on December 24, 2021, the day the university completed 100 years. Its foundation.
Chakraborty told TOI that he had sought Rs 150 crore from the Centre: Rs 125 crore for the construction of the complex and Rs 25 crore to meet the recurring expenses.
Sources said the center will start functioning with around 650 students in five schools of study: Languages, Arts and Culture, Himalayan Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy and Good Governance. “All schools will be multi-disciplinary,” said Chakraborty.
‘This is nothing but a political gimmick’
Launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the supervision of former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, the Executive Council of Visva-Bharati on June 10, 2020 approved the proposal to set up the new campus at Ramgarh in Nainital district.
Tagore expert Amita Sudan Bhattacharya said that the poet loved Ramgarh so much that the family bought a bungalow there with a garden on top of a hill and named it Haimanti. He also wrote many poems and songs there. Bhattacharya said he also wrote several letters to Ramgarh social reformer CF Andrews and son Rathindranath.
University sources said another 10 acres, which houses the house, will also be transferred to the university. The house is in dilapidated condition and the university plans to convert it into a museum to display Tagore’s works.
Bhattacharya, however, said he did not see any reason to open a second campus in Uttarakhand when the first campus in Santiniketan was in disarray. “It is nothing but a political gimmick. As a Tagore fan, I don’t see anything significant in this initiative,” he said.
Former acting VC Sabuj Kali Sen, during whose tenure the project was conceived, told that she accompanied Pokhriyal at a cultural event in Indonesia in 2018 when she told him about Tagore’s affair with Ramgarh. “He was immediately interested. When he went to Santiniketan a few months later, he expressed his desire to set up a campus. We responded to his suggestion and prepared a proposal,” she recalled.
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