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`Vande Mataram' to be sung at Bangalore varsity

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Even as the debate on singing of national song `Vande Mataram' is yet to subside, many organisations and associations, including the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi and the Bangalore University, are all set to have it sung at 11 a.m. on Thursday in Bangalore.

Registrar of Bangalore University R.M.N. Sahai has, in a circular, said that singing of the first two stanzas of the national song on Thursday was compulsory going by the directions by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The song would be rendered at the Senate Hall on the Jnana Bharati campus in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Ranganath, the Registrar and other senior officials of the university.Organisations of standing such as the Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi have said that they would observe the centenary of the song.

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