Governor Droupadi Murmu on Saturday appealed to academicians in the State to provide quality education to the students.
“It is yours duty and you will have to prepare job creators not job seekers, so plan and act accordingly,” the Governor cum Chancellor said addressing a huge gathering during the closing ceremony of Silver Jubilee celebration of Vinoba Bhave University (VBU), Hazaribagh on Saturday.
Calling the VBU as one of the best universities of the State she said the silver jubilee year is also a time of retrospection. “You should do introspection for the causes of failures during last 25 years due to which you failed to make your dreams true and to pledge that in future it will not be repeated,” she said.
The Chancellor of the State Universities Draupadi Murmu was the Chief Guest of the closing ceremony of Silver Jubilee year celebrations.
Post Master General of Jharkhand Shashi Shalini Kujur was the guest of honour of this function. Both guests, V-C, PVC and Registrar inaugurated the concluding ceremony with garlanding on the statue of Saint Vinoba and lighting the lamp. Murmu inaugurated the Gandhi-Vinoba-Jayprakash Chintan Kendra started in the Ravindranath Tagore building.
The Governor said that she felt the plight of students who go to other states for higher education. “A decision was thus taken to run universities and colleges in two shifts. I know the difficulties and problems of the colleges and universities and the government is acting fast to remove the problems,” said Murmu.
V-C Prof Ramesh Sharan acknowledged the contributions of all those who served or remained associated with the development of this university during last 25 years.
Talking about the motto of VBU “Jeevanam Satya Sodhanam” he said, “Our aim is to make our students acquainted with the rich heritage, culture, art and philosophies of our great thinkers cum social workers and for it we have started a cultural center and today Gandhi-Vinoba-Jayprakash thought centre was inaugurated.”
PVC Dr Kunul Kandir welcomed the guests and presented a detailed account of the last 25 years journey of VBU. On this occasion the students of VBU presented a brief but attractive cultural programme in which presentation of folk dances of almost all states was watch worthy. A little local boy, who had participated in famous TV program “India’s Got Tallent” also performed and got the appreciation of entire gathering.
On this occasion post master general of Jharkhand Shashi Shalini Kujur released the cover envelop and stamp specially prepared by her department on the occasion of silver jubilee year of VBU alongwith Governor Murmu and others. Souvenir, books written by Prof. SN Sinha, Prof Rajesh Kumar, collection of lectures delivered by visiting teachers under chancellor lecture series during last one year and the journal of department of English was also unveiled on this occasion. Chancellor felicitated toppers of each faculty of session 2015-17 in this ceremony.
Registrar Dr. BP Rukhaiyar presented vote of thanks, Prof. Abhay Sinha and Prof. Puja Pathak anchored the program.