To mark the Visva Bharati's 100 years, it should be an effort to renew Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's ideas from this institution

Visva Bharati's 100 years Daily Current Affairs Article 22nd December 2020: To mark the Visva Bharati's 100 years, it should be an effort to renew Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's ideas from this institution, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Visva-Bharati is a public research central university and an Institution of National Importance.

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It is located in Santiniketan, West Bengal.

It was founded in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.

Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, the institution was given the status of a central university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.

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