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Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Dec 23: Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam and Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be participating in the Silver Jubilee function of Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar on Tuesday.

While Dr Kalam will be delivering the silver jubilee address, Ghulam Nabi Azad will be laying the foundation stone for the silver jubilee auditorium and library complex. Union Minister for State for Railways K H Muniyappa will be the guest of honour and release Silver Jubilee souvenir on the occasion.

The Vice Chancellor Sri Devaraj Academy of Higher Education and Research Dr Chandrashekar Shetty, who addressed a news conference in Bangalore on Friday, said the founder chairman Sri Devaraj Urs Educational Trust for Backward Classes R Jalappa would be felicitated in recognition for services to the field of education.

Jalappa would be laying the foundation stone for Aasare project for the accommodation of attendants of patients through generous contribution by alumni, Dr Shetty said.

The medical college was started in 1986 by the Trust with an objective of providing medication education with a social commitment to uplift backward classes and the Trust later established several educational institutions in Kolar, Doddaballapur and Bangalore Rural District, Jalappa said.

“The Trust which obtained NAAC accreditation and ISO Certification had applied for Deemed University status and the Union Ministry for Human Resource Development conferred Deemed to be University status to Medical College in May 2007. More than everything we got the accreditation of the society,” he added.