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Giving due respect
- The Statesman
- 30 Oct 2014
Vidyasagar University mulling plans to open statistics department
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Midnapore, 29 October
The authorities of Vidyasagar University are mulling plans to open statistics department to pay due honour to the man behind the creation of the university.
While remembering the glorious activities of Professor Anil Kumar Gayen, who had made significant contributions in Mathematics and Statistics and dedicated the later years of his life towards the establishment of Vidyasagar University as a non-traditional institution of higher education in a programme held yesterday, the varsity authorities disclosed their future plans about the opening of statistics department before the academics.
It was an irony that the contributions of Mr Gayen towards the establishment of Vidyasagar University was not given due recognition by the former Left Front Government during its 34 years of rule. It was only under the active leadership of the present Vice-Chancellor Professor Ranjan Chakrabarti, based on a proposal submitted by Dr Abhijit Guha a teacher of the Anthropology department, that the executive council of Vidyasagar University in its meeting held on 4 May 2012, decided to form a committee to commemorate the contributions of the founder of the varsity in a befitting manner. Accordingly, Gayen’s short biography was placed in the VU website, (http://vidyasagar.ac.in/About/AKGayen.aspx), and the Central Library building was named as Anil Gayen Bhavan.
The first Anil Kumar Gayen memorial lecture was held yesterday at the Birendranath Sasmal Hall at Vidyasagar University in presence of more than hundred members of the varsity community including many students and teachers of the various departments. The lecture was delivered by Professor Syed Samsul Alam the first Vice-Chancellor of Aliah University and a student of Professor Gayen.
Professor Gayen first mooted a proposal for the establishment of Vidyasagar University as a non-traditional rural university to cater to the developmental needs of the local tribal and underprivileged communities with the aid of interdisciplinary teaching and research to the Central Government in the early 1970s and was finally accepted through the recommendations of the Ghani Committee by the University Grants Commission.
Anil Kumar Gayen (1919-1978) hailed from a poor family of a remote village named Lakkhi, in the Khejuri block of present East Midnapore district and became a renowned scholar in the fields of Mathematics and Statistics. He was awarded Ph.D degree in 1950 in Statistics from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Henry Ellis Daniels, F R S, then President of the Royal Statistical Society, UK.
Gayen held the chair of the Head of Mathematics Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, during 1954-1978. Professor Anil Gayen was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, England and Cambridge Philosophical Society and was President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress in 1971 and also a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Midnapore, 29 October
The authorities of Vidyasagar University are mulling plans to open statistics department to pay due honour to the man behind the creation of the university.
While remembering the glorious activities of Professor Anil Kumar Gayen, who had made significant contributions in Mathematics and Statistics and dedicated the later years of his life towards the establishment of Vidyasagar University as a non-traditional institution of higher education in a programme held yesterday, the varsity authorities disclosed their future plans about the opening of statistics department before the academics.
It was an irony that the contributions of Mr Gayen towards the establishment of Vidyasagar University was not given due recognition by the former Left Front Government during its 34 years of rule. It was only under the active leadership of the present Vice-Chancellor Professor Ranjan Chakrabarti, based on a proposal submitted by Dr Abhijit Guha a teacher of the Anthropology department, that the executive council of Vidyasagar University in its meeting held on 4 May 2012, decided to form a committee to commemorate the contributions of the founder of the varsity in a befitting manner. Accordingly, Gayen’s short biography was placed in the VU website, (http://vidyasagar.ac.in/About/AKGayen.aspx), and the Central Library building was named as Anil Gayen Bhavan.
The first Anil Kumar Gayen memorial lecture was held yesterday at the Birendranath Sasmal Hall at Vidyasagar University in presence of more than hundred members of the varsity community including many students and teachers of the various departments. The lecture was delivered by Professor Syed Samsul Alam the first Vice-Chancellor of Aliah University and a student of Professor Gayen.
Professor Gayen first mooted a proposal for the establishment of Vidyasagar University as a non-traditional rural university to cater to the developmental needs of the local tribal and underprivileged communities with the aid of interdisciplinary teaching and research to the Central Government in the early 1970s and was finally accepted through the recommendations of the Ghani Committee by the University Grants Commission.
Anil Kumar Gayen (1919-1978) hailed from a poor family of a remote village named Lakkhi, in the Khejuri block of present East Midnapore district and became a renowned scholar in the fields of Mathematics and Statistics. He was awarded Ph.D degree in 1950 in Statistics from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Henry Ellis Daniels, F R S, then President of the Royal Statistical Society, UK.
Gayen held the chair of the Head of Mathematics Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, during 1954-1978. Professor Anil Gayen was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, England and Cambridge Philosophical Society and was President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress in 1971 and also a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
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