Mysuru: President of the HH Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar (SDNR) Foundation Pramoda Devi Wadiyar said that she has written a letter to the Union Government to re-name All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) after her father-in-law Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, the last ruler of the erstwhile Mysore State.
Addressing a press conference at the Mysore Palace here on June 29, to highlight about the birth centenary celebrations of Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar (Sri JCW) to be inaugurated by Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala on July 18, she said, Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar donated 20 acres of land at Kurubarahalli, at the foot of Chamundi Hill, to develop AIISH. “However, AIISH exchanged the land with the University of Mysore (UoM) which was developed near Manasagangothri campus. I have urged the Government to re-name the Institute after Jayachamaraja Wadiyar. The 20-acre land, which is with the UoM now, should also be named as Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar campus,” she said.
