The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Subhas Sarkar has participated as chief guest in the 5th Convocation ceremony held at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Sri City, Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, today.
Addressing the students Dr. Subhas Sarkar congratulated the graduating students and said, ”What you have achieved is not only the degree, but learning and experiences in the campus that you will cherish lifelong.” Quoting from Sri Adisankaracharya’s Bhaja Govindam, the minister advised the students to ‘be enlightened with the power of knowledge’. Stating that the golden era of startups has began in the country, he quoted the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and urged the graduates to showcase their talent and give a dimension to the flight of their imagination, to be an entrepreneur and to work for self and for the nation.
Further the Minister said “I am glad to know that students have an opportunity to undertake a credit-earning project for building a socially relevant technology-oriented problem adopted under ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’.” Concluding his speech, by quoting the Telugu poet Karuna Sri Jandhyala Papayya Sastry, Dr. Subhas Sarkar requested the students to practice compassion and contribute to the development of the nation.
In the convocation, degrees were given away to 218 students – 208 from B. Tech., 5 MS and 5 PhD students. Shri M. Balasubramaniam, Chairman, Board of Governors of IIIT-Sri City, Shri C. Srinivasa Raju, Chairman, Sri City & Member, Board of Governor, Shri Bhuvan Anadakrishnan, Director, Caterpillar Technology Centre and Prof. G. Kannabiran, Director of the Institute were present. Senate members, distinguished academicians, industrialists, students and parents from India and abroad have attended the convocation ceremony.
Established in 2013, IIIT Sri City has the unique distinction of being the first IIIT in PPP mode to introduce MS and PhD programmes. In a short span of nine years, the Institute has grown to prominence at national and international levels through the scholastic achievements of students and faculties.
Union Minister of State for Education @Drsubhassarkar has participated in convocation of IIIT Sri City at #Chittoor, #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/PjESeoB9Sy
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