Posted Jun 15, 2007, 3:23 AM
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Japan keen to fund Nalanda varsity
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13 June 2007 (IANS)
PATNA —Japan's Consulate General to India Noro Motoyasu said on Monday that his country would provide funds for the setting up an international university in Nalanda to strengthen its cultural bond with Bihar.
“The people of Japan were keen for close cultural relation with Bihar as it was the land of Buddha and Buddhism,” he said. Japan had earlier shown eagerness to invest Rs4.5 billion in setting up a university in Nalanda. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will head a panel that will oversee the establishment of the international university in "Nalanda and its first meeting will be held in Singapore in July. The proposed university will be fully residential, like the ancient seat of learning at Nalanda. In the first phase of the project, seven schools with 46 foreign faculty members and over 400 Indian academics would be established.
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