The Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) recently conducted its 29th annual convocation where M Venkaiah Naidu, Union minister for urban development and parliamentary affairs lauded their contribution in the field of higher education.
He said: “The university which has signed more than 100 MoUs with several universities abroad. This credit goes to Dr Viswanathan who has been a senior politician of considerable standing and much senior to me. He would have distinguished equally well if he had continued in the domain of politics. He gave it up to focus on promoting quality education and this entailed substantial sacrifice,” he said.
VIT University chancellor Dr G Viswanathan said that Government should allocate more funds to create more universities and increase seats. “We’ve 700 universities and over 37,000 colleges in the country with 2.8 crore students studying in it. Yet, our gross enrollment ratio is less than 20 per cent,” he said.
University vice-presidents Sankar Viswanathan, Sekar Viswanathan and GV Selvam, besides vice-chancellor, Prof V Raju, participated in the convocation.