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Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan connected Monday urged the youth, who were navigating a satellite wherever each facet of quality beingness was being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence, automation, biotechnology, and integer connectivity, to temper enthusiastic adoption of exertion with ethical vigilance.
Delivering the 30th convocation code astatine Pondicherry University, the Vice-President and Chancellor of the assemblage cautioned the graduates to usage integer tools to heighten productivity and connectivity, but not astatine the disbursal of their capableness for heavy reasoning and meaningful engagement with society.
During the people of his address, successful which helium often drew from past Tamil wisdom, notably the Sangam-era poetic enactment Nalatiyar, the Vice-President urged the students to retrieve that portion cognition is limitless, the clip disposable to get it was limited. Therefore, graduates should assimilate lone what is valuable, ethical, and meaningful from the immense water of information, helium said.
Exhorting the graduates to go architects of the ‘Viksit Bharat’ mission, the Vice-President emphasised that improvement becomes meaningful erstwhile it is inclusive of each sections of society. Whatever beryllium the vocation, the contributions of the younker “carry immense work and bonzer opportunity”, helium said.
Referring to the transformative imaginable of the National Education Policy, 2020, successful ensuring that acquisition is for each and not for a privileged few, the Vice-President termed the NEP a large displacement from rote memorisation to captious thinking, from rigid boundaries to multidisciplinary learning, and from examination-centred learning to holistic development. “As graduates, you indispensable go its ambassadors to transportation guardant its tone of inquiry, innovation, and inclusive excellence,” helium said.
Congratulating the graduates for successfully completing a important signifier of their world journey, Mr. Radhakrishnan besides reminded them that a convocation was not simply a solemnisation of world achievement, but a solemn juncture that “marks your readiness to enarthrosis greater responsibility”, and a “new beginning”.
“As you person your degrees today, you are being entrusted with the work to use your cognition for the advancement of nine and the nation,” helium said.
Stating that beingness would ever beryllium filled with challenges and competitors, the Vice-President urged the younker to ne'er instrumentality shortcuts to succeed. “Success of this quality volition induce a mendacious consciousness of victory, lone for nonaccomplishment to present a crippling stroke 1 day,” helium said.
One connection of proposal that helium said helium had been giving to the younker everyplace was to accidental ‘No’ to drugs. “Not lone should you beryllium escaped of drugs, but also, you should dissuade others from the habit,” helium added.
G. Satheesh Reddy, Member, National Security Advisory Board, and president of the Aeronautical Society of India, said India was astatine a tipping point, wherever it needed to modulation from a processing to a developed federation by 2047. He pointed to the increasing defence exports and the enlargement of the start-up ecosystem arsenic areas wherever the federation was excelling.
Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor P. Prakash Babu presented a study connected the occasion.
Lt. Governor K. Kailashnathan, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, Speaker R. Selvam, Home Minister A. Namassivayam, MP S. Selvaganabathy, PML Kalyanasundaram, and Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan participated successful the event.
The Vice-President besides inaugurated the Mahakavi Subramania Bharati International Convention Centre, the venue for the convocation, and a 100-foot-high emblem mast connected the campus.
The convocation was held for the world years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, with 73,527 candidates being conferred degrees successful assorted disciplines. A full of 746 candidates were awarded Ph.Ds, and golden medals were presented to 191 toppers from 2021; 191 candidates from 2022; 192 from 2023; and 186 from 2024 crossed assorted disciplines, including UG and PG programmes.
Prior to the convocation ceremony, the Vice-President inaugurated the Senior Secondary Block of Petit Seminaire CBSE School, and unveiled the statue of Subramania Bharati astatine the Bharatiyar memorial successful the city.
