Delhi University’s Gyanodaya Express will travel to North-East this year to enrich students’ understanding about the culture and heritage of the region. As many as 900 students will be given the opportunity to travel on Dharodhar-Gyanodaya Express from December 20-30. They will be given basic working knowledge of eight different languages of the North-East under special certificate courses run by DU, Registrar Tarun Kumar Das said in a statement on Tuesday.
The students accompanied by around 100 teachers will be selected from colleges on basis of project proposals and will be divided into groups of 11-15 with a mentor each. Each group will have at least one member from the North-East. The projects are to be based on ideas that shall give a deeper understanding of richness of the region and its contribution in diverse ways towards the well-being of the nation, he said.
During the trip, students will get to meet representatives of local universities as well as senior functionaries of North-Eastern states, Das said, adding, issues related to citizenship, national integration and ideals propounded by eminent leaders would be addressed in the study conducted by the students. Started as the ‘College on Wheels’ project in 2012, this will be the fourth edition of Gyanodaya Express.