With a tribute to its past, Lucknow University marks founder’s day

“Quite often, people do not care about the rules. The courts have to intervene even in issues like dumping garbage in a river,” he said.

The university also felicitated eight of its alumni — Justice Pradeep Kant, Shanti Hiranand, Dr Mahesh Chandra, M C Pant, Professor Furqan Qamar, Nirupam Bajpai, Dr Mohini Giri and Vijay Sharma.

Furqan Qamar, a professor of management studies at Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, New Delhi and Nirupam Bajpai, senior development advisor at Columbia University dedicated their success to the teachers of the LU.

The university began as a primary school in 1862 when the taluqdars of Awadh decided to establish a school, as a tribute to Viceroy Lord Canning.

By 1864, it grew into a high school with over 200 boys attending it and was soon raised to the status of a college known as Canning College.

On November 15, 1878, Sir George Couper, Lieutenant Commissioner of Awadh inaugurated the new building of Canning College at Kaiser Bagh, where the college functioned for over three decades.

In 1905, the Canning College Committee of the British India Association took the Badshah Bagh estate on lease from the British government.

On July 1, 1922, Canning College was officially handed over to the Lucknow University.