PM Modi to inaugurate Nalanda University campus in Bihar
On Wednesday, the new Nalanda University campus in Rajgir, Bihar, is opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A PMO statement states that the prime minister will arrive to the Nalanda Ruins at approximately 9.45 am. In 2016, the Nalanda remains were designated as a United Nations Heritage Site.
He will officially open the new Nalanda campus at approximately 10.30 a.m. Every now and then the prime minister will also speak to the assembly.
There will be a number of distinguished guests at the inauguration ceremony, including the heads of missions from seventeen different nations.
There are 40 classrooms spread over two academic blocks on the campus, with a combined seating capacity of about 1900. There are two auditoriums there, each with 300 seats. There is a student hostel there that can accommodate about 550 people. It also offers a number of other amenities, such as a faculty club, a sports complex, an international center, and an amphitheater that can hold up to 2000 people.
The campus is a green campus that is “Net Zero.” With solar power plants, drinking and household water treatment facilities, a water recycling plant to reuse wastewater, 100 acres of water bodies, and numerous other environmentally friendly amenities, it can maintain itself.
The East Asia Summit (EAS) countries and India are partners in the university’s conception. It is intricately linked to the past. Founded approximately sixteen hundred years ago, the ancient Nalanda University is regarded as one of the world’s first residential universities.
