SANTINIKETAN: Visva-Bharati University is interested in starting five study schools at the first satellite center in Nainital’s Ramgarh from July, said Chakraborty Chakyut Deputy on Friday.
The Uttarakhand government has submitted 45 hectares of land to free universities to establish campuses.
Until the campus is ready, the university will function from the temporary campus.
Ramgarh is one of Tagore’s favorite vacation destinations, where he bought a bungalow on the top of the hill.
About 10 hectares, where the bungalow stands, it is also likely to be given to the university, which plans to turn it into a museum to show off Tagore’s work.
This is the Centenary Viscava-Bharati years, which was founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan on December 23, 1921.
The decision to distribute the land was passed by the cabinet Uttarakhand on December 24, 2021, the university day marked 100 years of its foundation.
Chakraborty told Toi that he had searched for Rs 150 Crore from the center: Rs 125 Crore to build campus and Rs 25 Crore to meet recurring costs.
The source said the center would begin to function with around 650 students in five study schools: Language, Arts & Culture, Himalayan Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy & Good Policy.
“All schools will be multi-disciplined,” Chakraborty said.
“This is only a political gimick by the Ministry of Human Resources Development under the supervision of former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, the Visva-Bharati Executive Board has agreed to establish a new campus in Ramgerh in Nainital District in June, 2020.
Tagore Expert Amitra Sudan Bhattacharya said the poet Very fond of Ramgarh so the family had bought a bungalow with a garden on the hill there and named it Haimanti.
He wrote some poems and songs there too.
He also wrote several letters to Social Reformers CF Andrews and Son Rathindranath from Ramgarh, said Bhattacharya.
10 Other hectares, who own a house, will also be transferred to universities, university sources said.
The house is in a dilapidated condition and the university plans to turn it into a museum to showcase Tagore’s work.
However, Bhattacharya said he saw no reason to open the second campus in Uttarakhand when the first campus is s Antiniketan is in a disturbance.
“This is just a political gimmick.
As a Tagore admirer, I did not find anything significant in this initiative,” he said.
Former Consideration of VC Sabuj Kali Sen, during his tenure, the project was conceived, told him that he was with Pokhriyal in a cultural program in Indonesia in 2018 when he told him about Tagore relations with Ramgarh.
“He was immediately interested.
When he visited santiniketan a few months later, he stated his keenness to set up campus.
We respond to his advice and prepared a proposal,” he recalled.