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KOLKATA: Two replicas of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel medal stolen from the Vishwa Bharati University premises in March last will be finally handed over to the university authorities at Santiniketan by Swedish Ambassador to India Inga Eriksson Fogh on Saturday, exactly a year after the Nobel Foundation was approached for a replacement of the original. The replicas were given to the Union External Affairs Ministry by the Swedish Government in December last year, after the Foundation had considered the request as a special case and decided to have them manufactured in a mint authorised by the authorities concerned. Since then Vishwa Bharati officials have been requesting the Ministry to arrange for the replicas to be brought to the university where security measures, it is claimed, have been strengthened. Among those expected to be present at the handing-over ceremony are West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, sources in the university told The Hindu on Wednesday. The Ministry of Human Resources Development has sanctioned Rs. 6.5 crores for revamping security arrangements on the university campus. The university authorities have also asked the West Bengal Government for permission to requisition the services of private security agencies and for deployment of a special police force till it is granted. This follows the recommendations to bolster security by a high-power committee. The Nobel replica in gold will not be put on public display but placed in a special vault for now, the sources said. The one in bronze will be placed in Rabindra Bhavan from where the medallions had been stolen.
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