‘Installation of Gandhi Pillar mandatory for new university’
| Date :20-Feb-2020 |
Higher Education Minister Jitu Patwari addressing the Dharampal Memorial Lecture Programme organised at Barkatullah University in state capital on Wednesday.
Staff Reporter :
Higher Education Minister Jitu Patwari has said that it is necessary to make students aware of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology in order to make them master of human concept. He said that now it will be mandatory to install the ‘Gandhi Pillar’ in the establishment of any new university in the State. It the university agrees then only then permission will be given. Patwari was addressing the Dharampal Memorial Lecture organised at Barkatullah University in State capital on Wednesday.
Patwari said that every person associated with education and literature should be aware of Gandhi’s idea and his human concept. He said that non-violence, harmony and equality were the main ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. This is also the special characteristic of our country. “It is important for the future generation to know Mahatma Gandhi because we can keep our country safe only by the path shown by him,” he opined. He said “ We have set up Gandhi Chair for research on Mahatma Gandhi in 1,400 colleges to familiarize the youth with Mahatma Gandh’s ideas.”
In the lecture series, Litterateur Nand Kishore Acharya and legal expert Kanak Tiwari expressed their views on ‘Gandhi ko kaise samjhe’ and ‘Nagrikta ki Samajh’ respectively. Vice Chancellor of Barkatullah University Professor R J Rao and Founder of Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, and Historian Geeta Dharampal were present on the occasion.