Section 2:
Declaration of Visva-Bharati as an institution of national importance.
Whereas the late
Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) founded an institution known as Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan in the
district of Birbhum in West Bengal the objects of which are such as to make the institution one of national
importance, it is hereby declared that the institution known as "Visva-Bharati" aforesaid is an institution
of national importance 1[and is as such hereby constituted as a University].
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 60 of 1961, s. 2 (w.e.f. 19-12-1961).