The First Day of Blogging

PRAGATI mate PARISHRAM

Today on Saturday, 1^st September 2012, at the GTU conference room, about 35 young persons came together to listen to Shri Arvind Patel of Sahajanand Laser Technology and a leader of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

In the audience were 4 young faculty members, many young engineers, who had graduated in May 2012 and some young students. They all were budding entrepreneurs.

GTU is working for excellent learning systems in the Colleges, affiliated with it. It wants to continue to work with its alumni to help them continue to acquire additional knowledge, through Continuing Educational programs, whenever they feel the need.

The purpose of the meeting was to learn about entrepreneurship through  a successful entrepreneur.  Shri Arvind Patel inter-acted with the young persons very creatively and the meeting continued from 5 PM to 7.30 PM.

But these days whenever our faculty members, students or graduates come together with me, it is natural that we start discussing what we should do to improve GTU further.  I gave the following mantra:

“We can succeed in making Gujarat Technological University a great University when every member of the GTU family starts taking pride in GTU and starts working hard to see that his/ her contribution does not fall short.”¹

  

¹ References:

(i)  Gandhiji brought independence to India by converting Indian elite’s movement for self-rule to a people’s movement for independence.

(ii)  The Honourable Chief Minister has succeeded in bringing progress and prosperity to Gujarat by using his unmatched power of communication to make every Gujarati take ownership of the idea of development.

Other happenings at GTU:

<    1.     The start of Telecast of lectures under the ALCE (Active Learning and Creating Excitement in the classroom) program of GTU. The lectures will be telecast for 2 hours on every Saturday and for 4 hours on every Sunday during this semester.

      2.      The visit of the Managing Director of National Stock Exchange, Mumbai to GTU office. Later in the afternoon, NSE’s Associate Vice-President for Educational Activities met GTU’s Council of Deans for Business Studies to discuss the detailed proposals for signing an MOU between GTU and NSE.