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Chief Executive Officer of Magna International, Seetarama (Swamy) Kotagiri has urged students to support asking ‘what’s next?’, due to the fact that it is the clarity of intent that transforms dreams into reality.
An alumnus of BVB College of Engineering and Technology (now KLE Technological University), Mr. Seetarama (Swamy) Kotagiri was delivering the convocation code astatine the seventh convocation of KLE Technological University astatine Dr. Prabhakar Kore Sports Arena successful Hubballi connected Saturday.
Mr. Seetarama, who took a stroll down representation lane, told the graduating students that arsenic they were stepping into a satellite filled with unthinkable opportunities and existent challenges, they would necessitate resilience, creativity, humility, and courage.
He asked them to retrieve 5 elemental things to execute their goals. “You don’t request cleanable conditions, you conscionable request to start. Courage volition instrumentality you further than certainty. Keep learning and support asking ‘why?’ arsenic curiosity ever creates opportunity. Surround yourself with radical who marque you better. Choose radical who assistance you, situation you, and crushed you. Find a mode to permission each spot amended than you recovered it,” helium said.
Mr. Seetarama told the graduating candidates to marque improvements done tiny gestures and besides retrieve that 1 did not person to lick everything astatine once. “Ask yourself a elemental question similar what tin I marque amended today? You volition beryllium amazed by wherever beingness takes you,” helium said.
Quoting Robert Frost’s celebrated poem ‘The Road Not Taken’, helium said: “Every meaningful travel successful beingness involves choosing a roadworthy that others whitethorn overlook. It takes courageousness to measurement into the unknown. When you do, you not lone signifier your ain aboriginal but unfastened caller paths for those who travel aft you”.
He advised them to person personal, professional, household and societal goals to pb a balanced and meaningful life.
Chancellor of KLE Technological University and president of KLE Society Prabhakar Kore declared the convocation unfastened and conferred assorted degrees. Vice-Chancellor Prakash Tewari presented a little study of the assemblage highlighting its achievements.
Pro Chancellor Ashok Shettar, Registrar Basavaraj Anami, Prof. B.L. Desai, Prof. B.B. Kottur Shettar and heads of assorted departments, members of the Board of Governors, Executive Council and Academic Council, elder module members were present.
Gold medals
In all, 21 golden medals, including 15 for graduates and six for postgraduates; metallic medals for 15 graduates and 7 postgraduates, on with the Dr. S.S. Bhavikatti Gold Medal for topper successful Civil Department were presented. A full of 2,466 students were awarded their degrees successful engineering sciences, law, machine application, concern medication and manner and apparel design.
