The State Government would instal a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at a school in Jagatsinghpur district as a mark of respect to the legendary poet, according to official sources.
“This is a tribute to Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore who had donated land and set up a school at Pandua village under Ersama block of Jagatinghpur district,” School and Mass Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said on Sunday.
The nondescript Pandua village that still has the rickety ancestral house of the poet had no education facility when Tagore himself took steps to build a school for the education of villagers. There were at least 53 villages in Jagatsinghpur district which was part of the erstwhile zamindari estate of the Tagore family.
The house was one of Tagore’s most preferred retreats, and it was here that the poet had penned his dance drama Chitrangada.
locals have named the road that connects the village with the highway as Rabindra Sarani.
The people of Pandua feel proud as Tagore himself spent time there, Mishra said, adding that steps would be taken to preserve the Nobel laureate poet’s legacy in the district.