New Delh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will put a new university foundation stone named after Freedom Fighter King Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, followed by his address on that occasion.
The new university aims to meet old demand for state universities in the region.
PM Modi will also visit the Aligarh node exhibition model of the Uttar Pradesh Defense Industry Corridor and King Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.
This is what you need to know about the event: The significance of the new university university is being founded by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in the memory and honor of the Great Fighter FREAT, Educationist, and Social Reformer, King Mahendra Pratap Singh.
Preparation took place before the visit of PM Narendra Modi to put the foundation stone King Mahendra Pratap Singh University.
(Ani) was established in a total area of more than 92 hectares in Lodha Village and Museem Village Kareem Jarouli from Aligarh’s Koc Tehsil.
Varsity will provide Affiliate to 395 Division College of Aligarh.
A brief history of King Mahendra Pratap Singhraja Mahendra Pratap Singh is an alumnus of the Muslim University of Aligarh.
He also president of the first temporary government in India which was founded on December 1, 1915 in Kabul with the help of various Chiefs of Afghan tribes and several governments including Japan.
Belonging to the Kingdom of Mursan, he had left home and his family in Aligarh in December 1914 and fled to Germany and remained in exile for about 33 years because he was desirable by the British authorities.
King Mahendra Pratap Singh (photo file) he returned in 1947 only after India obtained independence.
He was chosen for Lok Sabha from Mathura in 1957, defeated the candidate Jan Sangh Atal Bihari Vajpayee, fighting as independent.
“King Mahendra Pratap is one of the most extraordinary Indian freedom figures and his commitment to the causes of Indian secular democracy marks it as a giant of His day,” said a famous scholar and political historian Professor Shan Mohammad, “his commitment to the cause of secularism is comparable to Gandhi and Nehru.
He is fully worthy of respect but his inheritance must be fully respected, “he added.
The university is a 7-year-old demand by the local BJP leadership, this development comes 7 years after the local BJP leadership first demanded to change the name of the Muslim University of Aligarh after King Mahendra Pratap Singh, who had “contributed the land” to it.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Minister Dinesh Sharma said that by establishing a state university in the name of King Mahendra Pratap Singh, the government paid tribute to a man who devoted more than three decades of his life to live in exile and fight for Indian freedom.
King Mahendra Pratap Singh plays an important role in establishing various educational institutions including pioneering technical colleges in Mathura, Sharma said.
The establishment of a state university in his name in Lodha has been “widely welcomed by people in this region because it will provide a big boost for education in Aligarh and the surrounding district”.
Sharma said that for the past four years, the Yogi Aditentalath government had established 11 new universities in the state.
The defense industry exhibition model founded by the Defense Industry corridor in Uttar Pradesh was announced by PM Modi when inaugurated the investor summit in Lucknow on February 21, 2018.
A total of 6 nodes – Aligarh, Kotpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow – had been planned in the Defense Industry corridor.
In the Aligarh node, the land allocation process has been completed and the land has been allocated for 19 companies, which will invest RS 1,245 crore in the node.
Defense Industry Corridor Uttar Pradesh will help in making the country independently in the field of defense production and promoting ‘Make In India’.
Governor and Uttar Pradesh Cm Yogi Adityanath will also be present on that occasion, the day after he oversees preparations for the event.
(With input from agency)
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