Hisar, Jan 9 (PTI) A Chair will be set up in the name of RSS doyen and scholar Dattopant Thengadi in the Economics Department of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology here, officials said on Tuesday.

The objective is to make the new generation aware of Thengadi, who was a “great thinker”, by doing research on his life, work and teachings, Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Narsi Ram Bishnoi said in a statement.

He said the Chair’s establishment will also provide a new direction of research to the scholars doing research in the field of economics.

A research fund named after Thengadi will be created and complete literature related to his life will be made available in the university, he said.

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