Offbeat Ideas And Frugal Inventions Sometimes Provide Simple Solutions To Complex And Bigger Problems: Dr. S. Chandrasekhar
“Some of the most original and innovative ideas were born out of dire situations. Problems are aplenty and are waiting for innovative solutions from you,” said Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, addressing the students who have graduated from The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education at Hyderabad, at the institute’s twelfth convocation. He said that though publications and patents are essential for scientific research, there is an immediate need for original and socially relevant research that can “touch the lives of the common man.”
Dr. Chandrasekhar cited several examples of frugal innovations that have significantly impacted people and society - like sewage pipe homes, voice prosthetics, Jaipur foot, and indigenous low-cost coronary stents developed by Dr. Abdul Kalam and Dr. Soma Raju. He mentioned Dr. Sonam Wangchuk, whose innovations have improved the lives of the people in Ladakh through a solution for the water problem and of the Indian army personnel through innovative solar-powered mobile tents.
Dr. Chandrasekhar said that the presence of more than 100 unicorns shows the highly vibrant entrepreneurial environment in the country and the opportunities that startups have. He told the graduating students that they would be leaders in the ‘Amrit Kaal’ referring to huge demographic dividend that India has. The country is on the right path, and the Prime Minister’s new mantra jai jawan, jai kisan, jai vignan, and jai anusandhan – will take us forward, he reiterated.
During the convocation, 2,505 students received their degrees. Ten students were awarded their Ph.D. degrees and 1,155 were given MBA degrees. In the other streams, 6 LLM, 134 BBA-LLB (Hons), 30 BA-LLB (Hons), 279 B.Tech, and 757 BBA degrees were awarded. 90 MMS degrees and 23 Executive MBA degrees were also awarded.
N J Yasaswy - Best Teacher Awards were given to the Best teachers in Business School, Science & Technology School, and Law School. Prof. Radha Mohan from the Business School, Prof. Gowri Shankar Brahma from the Science & Technology School, and Prof. Rakesh Suryadevara of the Law School received the awards for Best Teacher.
Mr. K KVenugopal, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Dr. B V Doshi, Vastu Shilpa Consultants, Ahmedabad, and Dr. H R Nagendra, Chancellor, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bengaluru were conferred with honoris causa by IFHE.
Medal Winners:
Medals were awarded to students for academic excellence and all-around excellence. The gold medal for the first rank holder for Academic Excellence in MBA went to Harshit Garg and the silver medal to Brundavanam Phani Teja. The ‘Saurabh Sharma Memorial Gold Medal’ for being the First Rank holder in the Marketing stream of the MBA program was awarded to Nandini Kalia.
Akershit was awarded the ‘Faiyaz Ahmed Khan Memorial Gold Medal’ as the First Rank holder in the Finance stream of the MBA program. The Manish Reddy Raavi award, constituted by an Alumnus of the institute for best student in finance, was given to Karan Ketavarapu. The Govind Shanbogue award, by the institute’s alumni recognizing the best student in the HR stream, went to Padmaja Kar. The medals for all-round Excellence in MBA went to AaratrikaLahiri, Satyajit Nanda, and Aayush Lalwani.
The Mahesh-Eshan Recognition for Research Pursuits Award constituted by Ph.D. alumni, the best student in the Ph.D. programme in Management, was awarded to Dr. Sonali Narbariya.
Abhinaya Ramakrishnan and Japneet Singh Bindra received gold and silver medals for academic excellence in the BBA program. In the BA (Economics) stream, the gold medal for academic excellence went to Anirudh Ashok and Tadi Pranay.
Ayush Kumar Karnand Sahiti Reddy received the gold medal and silver medal, respectively, for academic excellence in the B.Tech. programme. Arza Mahita Sri, Prateek Sanghi, and Himanshu Sharma received gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively, for All-Round Excellence in B.Tech Program.
In the B.Sc. Program the academic excellence awards were given to Thrishika H Reddy and B Abhinav Preetam.
In the BBA-LLB (Hons) programme, the gold and silver medals for academic excellence were awarded to Dinavahi Valli Prathyusha and K Gayathri respectively. The medals were also given to Apoorv Gupta and Sudheshna Suryadevara from BA-LLB (Hons) Program. The N J Yasaswy Award for the Best students, for All-Round Excellence in the Law School was given to Apoorv Gupta, Disha Agrawal, and Akash Krishnan.
Dr.C Rangarajan, Chancellor of the University and leading economist who has played a key role both as an academician and a policy maker in India presided over the convocation which was attended by more than 3000 students and their parents apart from the University Faculty, staff and other dignitaries.
About ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE): The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) is Deemed-to-be University under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. ICFAI Business School (IBS) is a constituent of IFHE. About 5,800 students are pursuing various programs in the Faculty of Management (ICFAI Business School), Faculty of Science & Technology (IcfaiTech), Faculty of Law (ICFAI Law School) and ICFAI School of Architecture, NAAC, an autonomous institute of University Grants Commission has also accredited The University with ‘A++’ Grade with an impressive score (institutional CGPA) of 3.59 out of 4.
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