WB-KANYASHREE-UNIVERSITY

West Bengal Chief

Mamata Banerjee Thursday laid the foundation stone of the new

Kanyashree university here in Nadia district.

The Kanyashree university would be only for women.

It has been named after the Kanyashree scheme, a

conditional cash transfer scheme aiming at improving the

status and well being of the girl child by incentivising

schooling of teenage girls and delaying their marriages until

the age of 18. It received the United Nations Public Service

Award last year.

"Girls are the future of the society. They are a

combination of Lakshmi and Saraswati. My best wishes to all of

you. Kanyashree is now best in the world. Today we have laid

the foundation stone of a new womens university. We have

named it Kanyashree University," Banerjee said after laying

the foundation stone here.

The Chief Minister also announced that a campus of

Harichand-Guruchand University, the foundation stone of the

which she would lay in Barasat on Friday, would be set up in

Nadia district.

"Tomorrow I will lay the foundation stone of

Harichand-Guruchand University at a function in Barasat. It

will come up at Gaighata. A campus will come up at

Krishnanagar," she added.

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