Be an icon of yourselves and never imitate others,” said Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal told while addressing the graduating students of the KIIT University during its 14th Convocation on Saturday here.
Every country of the world is striving for economic supremacy. You are going to face a world divided by the lines of religion, regions, colour, languages, etc. and the biggest challenge before you is to vanquish these divisions,” the Governor said to the graduating students.
He also advised them to be kind and find peace in the laps of nature. The Governor also praised KISS and KIIT and its founder Dr Achyut Samant.
Total 5,695 students of 2017 – 18 graduating batch of KIIT Deemed to be University received their degrees.
Among others, Prof (Dr) Ernesto Kahan, senior Vice-President, World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC), USA and Fmr Vice President, IPPNW (Nobel Peace Prize winner — 1985) were present.
As many as 77 students got PhD degrees in various disciplines. The university conferred Honoris Causa Degrees of DSc upon Prof (Dr) Kahan and Prof Dinabandhu Sahoo, Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal and DLitt upon Usha Kumari Prashar, CBE, PC, UK, Niklaus-Samuel Gugger, Member, Swiss Parliament, Prabhu Gaur Gopal Das, Life Coach, monk and spiritual motivational speaker, Kabir Bedi, film writer, producer, director and actor and Dr Md Sabur Khan, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In his address, the Chief Speaker Prof Kahan stated, “I have visited many places in the world, but never saw institutions like KIIT and KISS. Two institutions are indeed examples for the whole world”.