By IANS
Patna : Japan will fund the setting up an international university in Nalanda in Bihar, a Japanese diplomat in India has said.
Noro Motoyasu said here Monday that the Japanese people were keen to forge closer relations with Bihar because it was the land of the Buddha and Buddhism.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will head a panel that will oversee the establishment of the international university in Nalanda.
The proposed university will be fully residential, like the ancient seat of learning at Nalanda. In the first phase of the project, seven schools with 46 foreign faculty members and over 400 Indian academics would come up.
The university will impart courses in science, philosophy and spiritualism along with other subjects. A renowned international scholar will be its chancellor.