The state government has allotted land in Salt Lake to make room for construction of the campus, according to the society’s governing committee member Atish Dasgupta. Varied research activities of the Society, being hampered at its Park Street complex owing to space constraints, will be conducted at the second campus which will come up in a couple of years, he said.

Talks were also on to renovate the heritage building of the Society — the seat of learning since the 18th century. For this purpose, the Sir William Jones-founded Society was in touch with the Archaeological Survey of India, Dasgupta added.

According to the Society’s Secretary Ramakanta Chakraborty, a year-long programme has been drawn up for conducting seminars and talks on Indology, besides bringing out various publications of the Society to celebrate its 225th year, completed on January 15.