OUR CORRESPONDENTA museum and a research centre opened in the name of Panchanan Burma at Khalishamari. The second campus of the Cooch Behar Panchanan Burma University will come up at Khalishamari after 88 farmers parted with their plots. Khalishamari is the birth place of Panchanan Burma who was a social reformer of the Rajbangshi community. The farmers had already signed on legal papers and handed over the plots to the varsity whose first campus is near Cooch Behar. "It is a rare move that farmers have offered land free of cost for setting up of an educational institution.

Source: The Telegraph March 18, 2018 19:52 UTC