Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for yesterday’s cabinet clearance to a bill for setting up a global centre of learning in Nalanda.
“I thank the PM for his gesture. We will rescind the earlier act adopted by the state assembly for setting up the University of Nalanda,” Mr. Kumar told reporters.
He said the State government had sent its suggestions sought by the Centre on the bill.
“We had expected the bill to come up in Parliament during the last session, but it is good that it is coming up in the monsoon session,” he said.
Pegged as a symbol of global cooperation in education, the Nalanda University, proposed to be set up in Bihar’s Nalanda district, near the same site where an ancient university flourished centuries ago, would have schools on Buddhist studies, philosophy and comparative literature, historical studies and ecology and environmental studies.
He said the land acquired by the State government would be transferred to the Centre for the university.
