The Revival Of Nalanda University.

The Nalanda was renewed for its ancient university. Which is now famous as a historical ruin? Many scholars and student from other countries used to come here for their research and studies. When Huen sung,a Chinese scholar and traveler, visited this university during the 7^th century, there were around 10,000 students and about 1,500 teachers for the different departments.

But after being neglected for centuries, this ancient university seems to be in a revival mode to get back its past glory. Many Asian countries are trying their collective efforts to revive this university of Bihar as a centre of cross-culture understanding and learning. This twenty centuries old Nalanda university was really an architectural master piece of its period, attracting students from China,Japan,Korea, Persia and Turkey. It’s said that through its in depth teaching, exchange of scholars and spread of golden ideas-Nalanda was able to make an invaluable contribution to international understanding. Now with the help of some Asian mentor group countries Nalanda would focus on becoming a centre of excellence for various research work and teaching with emphasis on post graduate studies. For now it would have department of Philosophy, Business Management, International relation and peace studies and languages.

While former president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam has already been appointment as a visiting professor of this proposed university and the mentor group headed by Nobel laureate Amertya Sen has been attending several meetings to work out academic details and other vital decisions related to this university Dcil,a reputed consultant of government of India has prepared a detailed project report for revival of this ancient university.