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Swamiji's emphasis on character as the hallmark of an educated person is well known. He emphasized times without number that education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain but the life-building man-making character-making assimilation of ideas. In 1939 the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission took a small step in this direction by starting an institution of higher education near Belur Math called Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira. The name 'Vidyamandira' is Swamiji's own christening of the educational institution he wanted near Belur Math. Then in 1963 Swami Vivekananda's birth centenary year the authorities of Ramakrishna Mission submitted a proposal to the Government for the starting of the Vivekananda University. For various reasons however the university did not materialize at that time. Efforts in this direction were made off and on in subsequent years until finally a deemed university under University Grants Commission (UGC) was established under Ramakrishna Mission's auspices. The Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India declared the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI)—later renamed Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University—under the aegis of Ramakrishna Mission as a deemed-to-be university under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956. This Institute was subsequently renamed as 'Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University' with the approval of UGC.