From Left : Dr.Pradeep K.Khosla (Chancellor, University of
California ),Dr.P.Sathyanaranyan (President ,SRM University ),Dr.Ashutosh
Sharma ,(Secretary of Govt.of India ,Dept of Science and Technology ,)
Dr.T.R.Paarivendhar (Founder chancellor , SRM University ) ,Dr.Kiran Kumar (
Chairman ,ISRO ) , Dr. Prabirk bagchi ,( Vice Chancellor SRM University )
Dr Harsh Vardhan, the Minister of Science and Technology and
Earth Sciences was the Chief Guest at SRM University’s 10th Convocation with
some 14,000 students being awarded Bachelor’s, Master’ and Doctoral Degrees and
Diplomas. “To be successful you will have to nurture a dream today. If you have
a dream and are sincere about fulfilling it, you will have the help of God,
society and everyone”, the Union Minister remarked recalling how some two
decades ago a small group of people came up with the dedicated dream of making
India polio-free.
“If you can give a
ballot to every single person, why would it not be possible to reach out to the
people by a vaccine”, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said pointing out to the fact that
today India has been established to be “polio free” Lavishing praise on SRM
University as an institution of higher learning which has “all in one roof and
the real hub of research”, the Union Minister spoke of SRM’s Satellite that had
been launched in October 2011 and students and faculty currently engaged in a
conversation with ISRO on sending a satellite to the moon. “It is just
unbelievable”, Dr Harsh Vardhan remarked.
“Chennai is the intellectual capital of India and Chennai is
one place where the glorious heritage of the history of science has been
maintained in a professional fashion over the years. Apart from this, Chennai
has also the capability of being the research capital of the country,. With a
University like SRM you can establish a path that could be emulated by others”,
Dr Harsh Vardhan said.
In his welcome address, the President of SRM University, Dr
R P Sathyanarayanan, spoke of the various research initiatives taken up by
students and faculty in such areas as satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles,
under sea and all terrain vehicles and called on the central government to keep
private and government educational institutions on the same par when it came to
initiating Centres of Excellence and funding.
With the Founder Chancellor Dr T R Paarivendhar presiding,
honorary Degrees of Doctor of Science was conferred on Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar,
Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization, Chairman, Space Commission and
Secretary in the Department of Space; Dr Pradeep K Khosla,Distinguished
Professor and Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, USA; and
Dr Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science
and Technology.
The Convocation at India’s Number One Multi-Stream
University witnessed 90 scholars receiving their Ph.D degrees in various
disciplines besides nearly 165 students getting Gold Medals for having secured
first rank in their courses. A noteworthy feature of SRM University’s Tenth
Convocation was that for the first time as many as 46 students graduated with
Post Graduate Medical degrees in MD, DM and MS. And for a University that
prides on reaching out and assisting the economically disadvantaged and differently
abled in the society, 7 visually challenged students are graduating from the
School of Teacher education and Research with an M.Ed degree.
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