AGARTALA: President Droupadi Murmu, who embarked in Tripura today (October 12), inaugurated Tripura Judicial Academy and laid the foundation stone of the National Law University at Narsingarh, on the outskirts of the Agartala city.
This was President's prime visit to the northeastern region after assuming the highest office on July 25.
The Tripura Judicial Academy will now serve as the location for the Tripura National Law University, which is a division of the state government's Higher Education Department.
The state government of Tripura has nominated Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Pratap Singh as the institution's first vice-chancellor. The university will now have a permanent campus on 9.23 acres of land near Narsingarh.
The university will be the first of its type in the northeastern area to offer higher education in law to students from the northeastern and other Indian states. They declared that the judicial officers and officers of other Tripura government agencies who discharge judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative functions connected to law would get training at the Tripura Judicial Academy.
In the academy, constructed on 5 acres of land and at a cost of about Rs.23.33 crore, training would also be given to the ministerial officers of the Tripura High Court, district judiciary and, moreover, to hold and conduct law lectures, conferences, seminars and competition in the field of law.
The President would open the recently built MLA hostel at the Capital Complex in Agartala later that day and lay the cornerstone for seven further projects.
A brand-new passenger train between Agartala and Kolkata would be flagged off in Murmu on Thursday. On Wednesday night, the Tripura government will also host a civic event for the President.
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