Prez to address SMVDU C’vocation
TNN Bureau. Updated: 3/21/2018 10:23:52 AM
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JAMMU: President Ram Nath Kovind will address the upcoming convocation of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on 18th April, 2018.
After Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama who addressed the convocations of Jammu University and Central University Jammu, respectively, this will be the third high-profile visit to varsities of the state in two months’ duration.
Raj Bhavan today informed that Rashtrapati Bhavan has communicated Kovind has accepted the Governor’s request to be the Chief Guest and address the next Convocation of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on 18th April, 2018.
Governor Vohra had called on the President about a month earlier and requested him to address the next Convocation of this University.
Pertinent to recall that this fully residential University, established in 1999 by Shri Mata Vahsino Devi Shrine Board, founded on the academic and residential pattern of IITs, was inaugurated in 2004 by Dr Abdul J. Kalam, President of India, who also took the first class in this institution. The earlier Convocations of this University have been addressed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh; Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India; Dr Narayan Murthy, Chairman Infosys; Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India; and the last Convocation, in 2016, was addressed by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.
In 2016 and 2017 this young University was ranked among the Top 150 Universities of the country.