Hyderabad: BJP senior leader and Mahbub College chairman P.L. Srinivas said that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan would participate in a special programme on February 13 to mark the 132nd anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s historic visit to the college.
His lecture at the college, titled ‘My Mission to the West’, is believed to be Swami Vivekananda’s first on the sub-continent. He then travelled to Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where he introduced Hinduism to the Americans called for tolerance and an end to fanaticism.
Srinivas said Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, Union minister of state Bandi Sanjay Kumar, state minister Ponnam Prabhakar and monks from Sri Ramakrishna Missions across the country and abroad were expected to take part in the celebrations.
The management has decided to conduct the events in a grand fashion this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology, which has been offering several job-oriented courses.
To mark the National Youth Day, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda on January 12, the Mahbub College management is scheduled to announce new job-oriented courses for the benefit of poor and middle-class students, Srinivas informed.
Mahbub College, initially known as Anglo-Vernacular School, was founded in 1862 by P. Somasundaram Mudaliar, a renowned businessman. It was also the first English medium school to be set up by an Indian.
In 1884, the college was renamed Mahbub College in acknowledgment of the donations made by the sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan. Presently, the school provides affordable education to around 5,000 students, right from the school level to engineering and management courses.
