SUMAN K SHRIVASTAVA
Ranchi, February 29: 87 years after Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose breathed his last in Giridih, the Jharkhand cabinet okayed a proposal to set up a university named after the great scientist today.
At a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Champai Soren, the Jharkhand State University (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was nodded to establish Sir J.C. Bose University, Giridih.
Bose invented the crescograph machine, a device that measures the growth of plants.
Many believe that he was the original inventor of wireless technology. Still, because he did not get his research patented, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the wireless radio.
JC Bose University to cover Koderma, Giridih colleges
According to Higher Education Principal Secretary Rahul Purwar, the new university will cover the colleges in Giridih and Koderma, which are currently under Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag.
It will be the second university named after Bose in the country after the Assembly approves it tomorrow.
The Haryana government established a JC Bose Science and Technology University in 1969 in Faridabad.
Giridih currently has only one place named after the genius – Sir JC Bose Girl High School, which is adjacent to his residence.
Purwar said that the new university will be developed as a research-based institution and is a great honour to the world-known scientist who had made Giridih his ‘Karmabhoomi’.
Purwar said that a proposal to develop at least 10 colleges to develop as full-fledged research-based autonomous institutions is also in the pipeline.
Bose residence in Giridih
The Higher Education Principal Secretary said Bose’s residence in Barganda, Giridih, has already been turned into a science centre and will soon be equipped with more scientific devices.
Bose was born in 1858
Bose, born in 1858 in Munshiganj, Bengal Presidency, now in Bangladesh, was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist.
After obtaining his early education in Kolkata, Bose went to Christ’s College, Cambridge.
After returning to India and working in Kolkata, Bose shifted base to Giridih, where he breathed his last on November 23 1937, at 79.
166 +2 high schools
Meanwhile, the Cabinet also approved a proposal to upgrade 166 government high schools to +2 high schools.
