The Central University of Orissa (CUO), Koraput celebrated its 9th Foundation Day at its permanent campus at Sunabeda on Tuesday.
CUO Vice-Chancellor Prof Sachidananda Mohanty hoisting the university flag said, “Higher education today is at the crossroads. The most important aspect of a university is to cultivate a vibrant cultural and academic atmosphere and to create employability avenues for students. University is a place of self discovery. Times of celebration are also times for reflection.”
The university has made good progress in eight years to provide facilities for all round development in its campus like hostels for boys and girls, guest house with state of the art, library, electrification, NSS cell, NAAC cell and plantation in the campus, added Moahnty.
Former University of Delhi English Professor Prof Harish Trivedi said, “Establishing of the university in remote places like Koraput provide scope to students of the region to gain quality education. Humanities study man as a whole. In our culture, the divine and the human had no distinction” and urged the gathering to retain a bit of the poet within them.
Art cannot be used to make money or material issues. The Idea of higher education is to teach the mind. One should not finalise everything through logic. One should have an open attitude towards education, added Trivedi.