UP varsities to adopt five villages each, colleges one each: Governor

Each of the Uttar Pradesh universities will soon adopt five villages and colleges one each in the state and contribute to their development, Governor Anandiben Patel said on Thursday.

Patel made the announcement about Uttar Pradesh educational institutions replicating the practice prevalent in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh during her convocation address at the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology here at Gorakhpur.

"Every state university of Uttar Pradesh will soon adopt five villages and each college will adopt one," said Patel, also the chancellor of all universities in the state.

"The blue print detailing the activities to be performed in adopted villages will be given to vice chancellors and when all will join hands and work in rural areas, the picture of the state will be changed in five years," she said.

"The model was adopted in Gujarat and MP and the results are satisfactory," added the governor.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also advised students to play a proactive role in the development of society instead of only running for jobs after getting degrees.

Adityanath said the convocation ceremony is keeping alive the tradition of 'gurukuls' that motivates students to speak the truth, follow the right path and carry self-study, an official release said.

Noting that engineering students can play a major role in various fields, he said students must come forward for the successful implementation of the 'har ghar nal'
Referring to his efforts to tackle the dreaded encephalitis disease, he said, "I fought a 25-year-long battle against encephalitis. Many people succumbed to this disease between 1977 and 2017. However, after the formation of the BJP government in the state, we launched various awareness drives which have helped in checking the spread of encephalitis."