Second day at the NAAC Visit was spent in visiting other departments and Centres. Many girls from the College have received gold medals and have represented in the Republic Day Parade. In the evening went to visit the land mark of Gorakhpur, the Gorakhnath Temple. This is the Centre of the Nath cult but during the freedom struggle this also became a centre of the freedom struggle. Gorakhpur region is the heart of the Ishvaku Ayodhya and has deep connection with Ram. It finds mention in Buddhist chronicles, Chandragupta Maurya. Around 1680 it became a part of the Mughal empire and around 1801of the East India Company. There is a beautiful light and sound show at Gorakhnath with water fountains in the centre. The bhandara of the temple feeds thousand of people day and night and it has a akhand Jyoti, a perpetual light made of wick burning. The people offer Khichidi that is rice and lentils in Magh month of Ja uary and there is so much collection that it feeds the many students through out the year who stay in the campus itself and learn the ancient philosophy and Sanskrit language.
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