Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu on Monday asked teachers to educate students about innovation, research and promote new ideas. She said that technological advancement is need of the hour.
She was addressing Kolhan University’s second convocation function in Chaibasa in West Singhbhum district.
“I am really happy that the university has started an online admission this year as India moves towards digitisation it is important for us to move ahead,” she noted.
The Governor added, “Receiving degrees is not the end of your goal but it is a new beginning in your professional world where you will have to prove your caliber everyday. I hope students will make their society, the State and nation proud.”
“We have achieved so much but there is a lot to achieve. We have a Tribal and Regional language department but there are so many tribal languages that do not have scripts and grammar. The university has a language lab and I hope we will work on this path,” said the governor.
Saryu Roy, food and civil supplies minister and Neera Yadav, minister of school education and literacy, higher and technical education, were also present on the occasion.
Yadav said that degrees are not for showcasing. The people are looking forward to you to contribute for the development of the society and nation. The Minister also asked the university management to introduce skill based vocational courses in order to match the job market and personal development as well. She informed that one 1 crore for library, 2 crore for lab and 2 crore for renovation will be sanctioned to the university.
About 64 students (38 girls) from the session of 2013 and 2014 received gold medals for the academic performance across various streams. About 1860 students from 2013 and 2014 batch were present at the convocation today. The total number of pass outs in the year 2013 and 2014 were 12898 and 14292 respectively.
This apart vice-chancellor of Kolhan University, R.P.P. Singh; pro-vice-chancellor, Ranjit Singh; principals of colleges from across Kolhan region and students were present for the second convocation ceremony in the university campus of Chaibasa.
R PP Singh read out the report of the university and said that the university started with 27000 students on 2009 and in span of few years have now strength of 81thousand students . He also highlighted the participation of students in the scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi such as Swachha Bharta Abhiyan and skill development .