AGRA VARSITY FINDS ACADEMIC RECORDS OF VAJPAYEE
AGRA : Academic records of former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee was finally traced by authorities at Dr BR Ambedkar University of Agra. Governor Ram Naik, who is the chancellor of universities in state, made this declaration while addressing a convocation gathering for Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhaya University at Mathura on Friday. Vajpayee’s roll number was 561 when he appeared for MA exams in political science in 1947. The university had been facing flak after reports about missing documents of the former PM surfaced.
AGRA: The authorities at Dr BR Ambedkar University of Agra have finally traced former prime minister the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s academic records, which had been missing for years.
Governor Ram Naik, who is the chancellor of state universities, made this announcement, addressing a convocation gathering at Pt Deen Dayal Upadhaya University in Mathura on Friday.
Confirming the development, Ambedkar University vice chancellor Arvind Dixit presented seven- decade old documents before the media at a press conference on Friday evening.
He disclosed that the former PM’s roll number was 561 when he took the MA political science exam in 1947.
Vajpayee and his father were students of DAV College Cawnpore (Kanpur), which was then affiliated to the Agra University, now known as Dr BR Ambedkar University.
The former PM’s father Krishna Behari Lal Vajpayee passed the LLB exam the same year and his academic record was also there in the documents traced now, he said.
The former PM’s name on the MA degree awarded in 1947 was Atal Behari Lal Vajpayee. “I decided to find the missing documents on returning (to Agra) after paying tributes to the former PM in Delhi after he passed away on August 16. The week-long search yielded results with the help of Gulab Dutt Tripathi who had taught Vajpayee,” said the vice chancellor.
“It is indeed a matter of pride that we are now in a position to establish that the former PM was our alumnus and his records are now with us,” Dixit said. The university had been facing criticism after reports about the missing documents surfaced.