Patna, (Bihar Times): Rajasthan governor S K Singh was all praise for scholars, scientists, inventers, art and cultural activities from Bihar who have spread all over the world.

Delivering the Patna University (PU) convocation address at S K Memorial Hall on Sunday he said when he joined the foreign service in 1954, the most distinguished and productive civil servants belonging to any state cadre were from Bihar. The country’s best engineers were working on the Damodar Valley Project and some of the best surgeons and physicians were being produced by Patna Medical College.

“That perhaps is no longer the case today, but one must dare expect that the glory of that era will return as the quality of intellectuals produced in Bihar has obviously not deteriorated,”  he hoped.

Very soon, a major proportion of international patents acquired by any Indian state will be by scholars, inventors and innovators from Bihar, Singh added. He said that it is a tribute of sorts to the youth of Bihar that universities of Calcutta, Allahabad, Lucknow, JNU, AIIMS and several IITs and IIMs are populated by a fairly large number of knowledge-seekers from Bihar.

Singh, who was the chief guest at the convocation, gave away gold medals to 52 toppers of different postgraduation examinations.

The vice-chancellor of Patna University Shyam Lal, said on the occasion, that the university is striving hard to attain new heights in the academic world by strengthening the present system with the active support of the state government. The university has approached the state government for allocation of 1,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Patna for starting its own engineering, medical and dental colleges. The UGC has also been approached for sanction of adequate funds for the repair of its old buildings most of which are heritage sites in their own rights.

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