About this stamp
Seventy-Five Years of Utkal University
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 27 November 2018 for the 75th anniversary of Utkal University, founded on 27 November 1943, the seventeenth-oldest university in India. When Odisha became a separate province in 1936, its colleges still came under Patna or Andhra University; a committee chaired by Pandit Nilakantha Das, appointed in 1938, recommended a university of its own, and the Utkal University Act came into force on 2 August 1943 under the premiership of Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati.
Vani Vihar
The university began in the buildings of Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. President Rajendra Prasad laid the foundation stone of its own 399.9-acre campus at Bhubaneswar, Vani Vihar, on 1 January 1958, and President S. Radhakrishnan opened it on 2 January 1963. Its first vice-chancellor was the botanist Prana Krushna Parija. India Post describes it as the country’s largest affiliating university, with about 267 colleges, and some 3,000 students in its 27 postgraduate departments.
On the Stamp
The university buildings drawn in gold, with “75 years”. It was designed by Brahm Prakash, with the cancellation by Nenu Gupta; 408,000 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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