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Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Tirupati, K.N. Satyanarayana, connected Friday said that the federation stands astatine a defining infinitesimal successful its travel toward becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047. He emphasised that planners and architects volition play a pivotal relation successful this transformation, shaping cities that service arsenic “engines of growth” portion remaining inclusive, sustainable, and dignified spaces for all.
Speaking astatine the ninth convocation of the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Vijayawada, Mr. Satyanarayana identified 4 cardinal drivers that volition signifier the aboriginal of plan and planning: Sustainability and Climate Resilience, Technology and Data, Heritage and Identity, and Human-Centric Design.
Addressing the graduating students, helium reminded them that they were not simply designing buildings oregon plans. “You are designing the aboriginal of however India lives. Your enactment volition springiness signifier to the thought of Viksit Bharat — wherever maturation aligns with sustainability, and innovation is guided by empathy,” helium said.
He besides mentioned ongoing discussions for person collaboration betwixt SPA Vijayawada and IIT Tirupati, including associated probe initiatives, shared world programmes, and pupil exchanges, highlighting the imaginable for deeper organization partnerships.
The Chairperson of the Board of Governors of SPA Vijayawada, Amogh Kumar Gupta, said the instauration focuses connected fostering intelligence development, creativity, and a beardown consciousness of work among students. He urged the graduates to stay lifelong learners. “Education is simply a travel alternatively than a destination. Stay inquisitive, stay unfastened to caller ideas, and ne'er underestimate your quality to make affirmative change,” helium said.
Director of SPA Vijayawada, Ramesh Srikonda, presented a study highlighting the institute’s achievements during the world twelvemonth 2024–25. He spoke astir the institution’s absorption connected sustainable and inclusive practices and its increasing collaborations with reputed nationalist and planetary institutions. He besides highlighted respective caller initiatives, including the signing successful September 2025 of a high-impact Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt SPA Vijayawada’s AMRUT Centre of Excellence successful Urban Planning for Capacity Building (ACUPCB) and the Government of Andhra Pradesh’s Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) Department. The MoU recognises SPA Vijayawada’s enactment and expertise successful municipality readying and development, helium added.
A full of 276 students were awarded degrees. Among them, 10 graduates received golden medals for the twelvemonth 2024–25, and 12 Best Thesis Awards were conferred to undergraduate and postgraduate students successful Planning and Architecture.
