President Pranab Mukherjee requested better educational institutions to emphasize on inculcating centercivilisational values of patriotism.
NEW DELHI: Amid ongoing controversies in some universities, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesdayrequested better academic institutions to emphasize on inculcating core civilisational values of patriotism, compassion, honesty, tolerance and recognize for women.
He was speaking at a characteristic to honour Jawaharlal Nehru university (JNU) and Tezpur universityfor excellence in ‘research‘ and ‘innovation’ and being the ‘first-class university‘ respectively.
“To be a pinnacle better academic institution requires one to stick to a few primary pre-situations. To my mind, the most critical amongst them are making sure the great of training and research, improvingcollege standards and establishing collaborations and linkages with worldwide as well as domesticbusinesses.
“The emphasis on academic excellence, in addition to inculcating core civilizational values of patriotism, compassion, honesty, tolerance, performance of duty and admire for ladies as to be maintained at some stage in,” President Mukherjee said.
The President provided the traveler‘s Awards for research as well as innovation to Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar and the Molecular Parasitology group of JNU respectively.
besides, Tezpur university in Assam become given the yearly traveler‘s award for the first-class college. The President is the visitor of crucial universities.
“those Awards must encourage and encourage the significant universities and their instructionalcommunities to excel similarly. You all ought to paintings closer to turning into temples of expertise andgaining knowledge of,” he said on the characteristic held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.