The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on 19 June inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University at Rajgir, Bihar.
- The University is conceived as a collaboration between India and East Asia Summit(EAS) countries.
- The Nalanda University Campus has two Academic Blocks with 40 Classrooms having a total seating capacity of around 1900.
- The Campus is a ‘Net Zero’ Green Campus. It is Self-Sustainable with solar plant, domestic and drinking water treatment plant, water recycling plant for reusing wastewater, 100 acres of water bodies, and many other environment-friendly facilities.
- The University has a deep connection with history. The original Nalanda University, established around 1600 years ago, is considered to be amongst the first residential universities in the world.
- The ancient Nalanda Mahavihar comprised the archaeological remains of a monastic and scholastic institution dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE.
- The ruins of Nalanda were declared as a UN Heritage Site in 2016.
