Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the centenary celebrations of the Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan on December 24, 2020 through video conferencing.
- The Prime Minister is the Chancellor of the Visva-Bharati University.
- Founded by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, Visva-Bharati was declared to be a Central University and an Institution of National Importance by an Act of Parliament in May 1951.
- Visva-Bharati is also the oldest Central University in the country.
- The University follows the pedagogy devised by Gurudev Tagore, though gradually it evolved in the format in which modern Universities developed elsewhere.
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