VBU hikes entry fee for visitors at Shantiniketan
The Visva-Bharati University (VBU) authority has increased the entry fees for Upasana Griha and Rabindra Bhawan and the surrounding areas.
The Visva-Bharati University (VBU) authority has increased the entry fees for Upasana Griha and Rabindra Bhawan and the surrounding areas.
All the cases were filed after Professor Bidyut Chakraborty took over as the vice-chancellor. This has happened at a time when the varsity has received the heritage tag from UNESCO.
On 24 January, the joint registrar of the estate office of VBU has issued a notice regarding leased plot number 201 at Sripalli, Shantiniketan (mouza Surul, JL-104) stating that it has been found from physical survey and land records that 13 decimals of land belong to Visva-Bharati in LR Plot number 1900/ 2487.
Setting up of a second campus and a change of name can only obfuscate the core of the crisis, which as yet remains unaddressed. The theft of Tagore’s Nobel medal is a crime that has been hanging fire for the past 18 years (March 2004). The authorities must of necessity get to the root of the malaise. To rename Visva-Bharati University is at best a half-hearted attempt at self-preservation; at worst a cosmetic change that will not improve Visva-Bharati
The Constitution of the Visva-Bharati University designated Visva-Bharati as an Indian, Eastern and Global cultural centre.
It is hard not to wonder whether Tagore’s legacy has been trashed fair and square when Prof Chakraborty admits in a rare moment of candour that “Visva-Bharati University has become a haven for thieves and dacoits”.
Visva-Bharati registrar Ashok Mahato on Saturday asked for measurements university campus and the land belonging to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
Addressing a huge gathering during her mega rally in West Bengal's Bolpur, Mamata Banerjee also accused BJP of insulting Rabindranath Tagore.
Dilip Ghosh's remark has come at the time when Amartya Sen was accused of illegally registering a part of Visva-Bharati University's land under his own name.
After Narendra Modi addressed the Visva-Bharati centenary celebrations, TMC had alleged that Mamata Banerjee did not get a call to attend the event.
