Bhubaneswar, Jan 23: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate the Odia University at Satyabadi tomorrow. The inauguration program is scheduled to be held at about 11.30 AM on Wednesday.
The Odia University, a dream project of the chief minister, is located near the Bakula Vana Vidyalaya, the first model open school set up by ‘Panchasakha’ in 1909. The chief minister laid the foundation stone for the university on October 9, 2018. It will be set up on 25 acres of land.
The first phase of work has been taken up on 8.6 acres which includes a school of learning with a capacity of 200 students, and separate hostel blocks for male and female students with a capacity for 32 students each.
Besides, the proposed university will also have a 16-seater scholars’ hostel, library, cafeteria, an administrative block and a well-developed water body.
The beautiful and serene campus of the university has successfully used Odia alphabets in its design and architecture. The Odia University will be a centre of excellence for research and development in Odia language.
The Chairman of 5T and Nabin Odisha VK Pandian has been reviewing the progress of construction work of the university time to time.
