UNESCO to soon report Kolkata’s Visva Bharat world’s first living heritage university in this years

UNESCO to soon report Kolkata’s Visva Bharat world’s first living heritage university in this years 

If everything goes according to plan, Visva-Bharati University, established in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore, will shortly receive the 'heritage' classification from UNESCO and become the first living heritage university.

Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty of Visva-Bharati University made reference to this when he said that the university would be designated as a heritage institution. For the first time ever, a living university that is still in operation will receive the historical designation from UNESCO, he continued, making it history.

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When it was established in 1921, the 1,130-acre institution was known by the name Rabindranath Tagore till the Visva-Bharati Society was officially recognized as a legal entity in May 1922. According to the sources, the Nobel Prize winner gave the group some of his property, including a cottage and some land.

Until Independence, it operated as a college; nevertheless, in 1951, a legislative Act granted the institution the title of Central University. Rathindranath Tagore, the son of Rabindranath Tagore, served as this institution's first vice-chancellor.

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Records show that Rabindranath introduced the university's still-practical open-air education approach because he believed in its value. The current vice chancellor continued by saying that no other university in the world conducted continual cultural experimentation.

The development reportedly occurs 11 years after the Union Culture Ministry petitioned for Santiniketan (Visva Bharati) to be designated as a UNESCO historic site and to win acknowledgment for Tagore's cultural ark in advance of his 150th birthday.