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Dream Girl Hema Malini and the Metro Man Dr E Sreedharan accepted their Doctorates in Philosophy yesterday along with 255 BTech and 27 MBA students at the 2nd Convocation Ceremony in Sir Padampat Singhania University.
The University conferred degrees to their 2008 BTech batch and 2010 MBA batch. Gracing the stage, the panel seated consisted of Chancellor and Chairman- Yadupati Singhania, Vice-Chancellor – P C Deka, President – Ashok Ghosh and Vice-President- Rinu Ghosh.
The Guest of Honor were: Dr John Christensen Chancellor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA; Prof. H Shimada President, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan.
The University’s passed out batches have performed excellently, achieving 100% placements in the MBA branch and 90% placements in BTech as pointed out by the Vice-Chancellor in his speech. He also described the developments that have taken place in the University, since the inception of the plan.
Prof Christensen and Prof Shimada discussed the relationship between the host University and their Universities and taught the basic rules to be kept in mind while preparing for the corporate world, to the students. Prof Christensen related some wonderful facts to realize that only 7% of the actual population studies up to graduation program. Prof Shimada bridged the gap between the tangled history of India and Japan.
The Chancellor then honored the students by presenting them their degrees as the Dean of Engineering, Dr Achintya Chaudhary announced the names of Engineering students and the Dean of Management, Dr Sushil Lalwani called for MBA students.
Nirmal Singh, Computer Science and Engineering was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal and also the Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal. Among the other Vice-Chancellor’s gold medalists were Apeksha Jain [MBA] and in BTech- Swati Kabra [BioTechnology], Deepak Paliwai [Civil], Siddhant Yadav [Electronics and Communications], Ansh Khanna [Information Technology] and Aakash Jain [Mechanical]
Nirmal Singh led the batch for the oath taking ceremony following which the students were officially declared as degree holders.
Although the Convocation is observed as a strictly formal event, Hema Malini managed to get cheers when she came on stage to receive the PhD.
In her speech, later, she reminisced about the time she’d spent finding solace in dancing and acting. Dr. E Sreedharan talked about the challenges he was posed with when the 760 km long stretch of Mumbai to Bangalore Konkan Railway line was to be installed and when the next objective of Delhi Metro was posed to him. Both of the extraordinary personalities were presented the degree for their outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
For Hema Malini, this is an icing on the cake as she recently also bagged the honors of having her picture put on stamps in Norway. And for Dr Sreedharan this is just another landmark in the long run of recognitions that he has been creating for himself and the country.
The Chancellor then declared the Convocation closed as the last of the students was awarded. The passed out batch have a brilliant life lying ahead of them, and the gift of receiving their degrees along with these imminent personalities will certainly boost their morale as they’ll always remember their last day at their beloved Alma Mater.
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CHEAP POPULARITY GIMMICK
Why should any University dole out PhDs without any research and higher study in the respective fields? If professionals and artists have excelled in their areas, there are bodies, organisations and governments to honour them. But, by loosely distributing PhDs like this, Universities destroy the sanctity attached to them. And, with no prescribed norms for such awards, it becomes an open playground for the Universities to whimsically oblige and honour anybody – raises more questions than answers; like, why Hema Malini, and not Madhuri Dixit? Or, why Shreedharan, and not APJ Abdul Kalam?
I’ll second this!
@Anupam Bhargava: For your kind information being a member of press I was there and it did not seem to be a “cheap popularity gimmick” as it is sounding to you (and BTW you were not even present there).
“why Hema Malini, and not Madhuri Dixit? Or, why Shreedharan, and not APJ Abdul Kalam?”- Let me tell you that Hema Mailini started her carrier way before Madhuri Dixit and for her contiguous work achievements & accomplishments she deserve something. Same is with Shreedharan, it is not only APJ Abdul Kalam who is spearheading the country in field of technology. Others too deserve a chance for appreciation, and Metro-Man devoted his life even after retirement for giving our national capital “THE METRO”.
My request to you – “weigh before you say”.
Agree with you “Mr. Member of Press.”
It’s not about fighting over why this person and not the other one. It should be about appreciating the efforts.
PS: If you are brave enough to express your thoughts then do it with your identity rather than being “anonymous”.
Mr/Ms STOP BEING IN DENIAL & NEGATIVE STATE,
Apparently, it is a case of being parochially over-awed by the glitterati and pompousness of the function, that blinds one to view the matter on the bigger canvas. Incidentally, one cannot be more ridiculous than claim extra qualification simply on being present there and make it threateningly sound as if those absent dare not even pass comments.
Question under consideration is ‘where is the need for universities to indulge in such tamaashas?’ Shouldn’t they rather focus on academic and research-based activities? Perhaps, owing to the unwarranted heat that fueled the comment, it totally got lost in the dis-orientation. Also, ‘no prescribed norms for such awards’ still remains un-addressed. Madhuri Dixit and APJ Abdul Kalam were only examples to show that without any prescribed norms, the list is not only endless, choosing names out of it is absolutely whimsical. Don’t unnecessarily ‘weigh’ that what is not needed.
The limitations and restrictions on thinking can be easily understood by the name you have clothed yourself with.
A simple and noble man E.Sreedharan has not only made wonders in Indian Railways but has created two transport organizations namely Konkan Railway and DMRC. The 720km Konkan Railway in west coast area is engineering marvel of Indian Railways which Britishers ventured and failed. Similarly the Delhi Metro in the national capital is a world class metro running with operating profit. His leadership style is the pivot which has laid the foundation for a modern, energetic organisation ,enabling the DMRC to function as smoothly and efficiently as any corporate organization. The success story of the Metroman is due to the four virtues followed by him namely punculaity,transparency,professional excellence & social responsibility. Even at this age of 80 he is not able to retire from his professional activity and the people of Kerala are expecting a miracle from him in building the Kochi Metro,High speed rail corrider and mono rail at Kozhikode and Trivandrum. A real “RAJARISHI”.
Hope he deserves more than taht .A real “BHARATH RATHNA”
Good efforts by the university.
Sadly, there is no photograph of Dr. E. Sreedharan. Strange thing. Looks like everyone was attracted by the stardom and even the media persons didn’t care much about the presence of Metro Man.
They are doing it coz they think it will make good image n dont know why even such celebraty come to have the degree from such university.
looking towards them – celebraty, many student will be traped….
Hema Madam if you have taken phd degree, kindly give it to them back or it will destroy your image.