Nalanda University - A quest to make India knowledge centre
latest news At present, the institution runs six schools. There are 137 scholarships on offer for international students For Nalanda Univeristy, named after the ancient seat of learning that drew scholars from far and wide around 1600 years ago, the sprawling state-of-the-art Net Zero campus is a big step forward in the quest for the glory that once drew scholars from far and wide. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed happiness that the university’s around 500 regular students are from 20 countries. “Nationality was not a criteria for admission in the ancient Nalanda and the new Nalanda will also develop on similar lines,” he said after inaugurating the campus. Though the university shifted to its new under-construction campus in 2020, the work went into completing the huge exercise. The university had once planned inauguration by the PM during 2022, but that could not materialise. But the PM made sure that he should inaugurate it in the very month of his third term. The infrastruct