Speak up against dowry, drug abuse: Governor tells students

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has said that it is important for everyone to instrumentality a wide presumption against societal evils, including dowry and cause abuse.

He was speaking astatine the 11^th convocation ceremonial of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) astatine Panangad present connected Thursday (February 19, 2026). He praised the varsity’s determination that graduates indispensable taxable anti-dowry and anti-drug affidavits during the convocation event, said a merchandise issued here.

The Governor noted that astir 70% of the graduating students were women, which makes the university’s anti-dowry inaugural peculiarly significant. He was quoted arsenic reminding the students that acquisition successful fisheries and marine studies should not beryllium constricted to earning a degree, but should yet service nine and lend meaningfully to assemblage development, it said.

Nutrition researcher Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted was the main guest. State Fisheries Minister Saji Cherian, Vice-Chancellor A. Biju Kumar, and Registrar K. Dinesh attended.