Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University vice-chancellor Rajdeo Singh at the meet on Friday. Picture by Ajit Kumar Verma

Motihari, Jan. 21: Public health and engineering department minister Chandra Mohan Rai today expressed his wish that the Central University in Bihar be named after Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.

The minister also hoped that the Central University would be established in Champaran district.

Rai was addressing a gathering of students and teachers at the M.S. College under Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University after that unveiling of statues of founder of the college late Munshi Singh and its former principal late Bhola Nath Singh, here on Friday.

Speaking on the ocassion, the minister said that universities should concentrate more on job-oriented courses.

Former BJP state president and local MP Radha Mohan Singh, who till the elections has been pioneering the cause for a Central University in the name of Mahatma Gandhi in Champaran, ever since it was first announced by chief minister Nitish Kumar here on November 19, 2008, kept mum over the issue.

Outgoing vice-chancellor Rajdeo Singh in his last adress to students said they should find real educators, who perform their duty with perfection and set examples for others. Singh said that education differentiates between man and animal.

The VC, who will retire on January 25, asked the students to accept life as action and a rare gift by god to achieve something important. “The real beauty lies only in performance of duty,” he added.