Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates Amenities Centre at University of Hyderabad

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu urged students to join the forces of growth and channelize their energies for constructive, nation-building activities to build a New and Resurgent India.

The Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated an Amenities Centre at the University of Hyderabad. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Telangana Home Minister Md. Mahmood Ali; Chancellor of the University Justice L Narasimha Reddy; Vice-Chancellor Podile Appa Rao; Dean of Students Welfare Dr B Nagarjuna; and deans of various schools, faculty, students, university staff and other dignitaries.

During the inauguration, the Vice President urged the youth to join the forces of growth and channelize their energies for constructive, nation-building activities to build a New and Resurgent India. The Vice President advised the youth to shun negativism, adopt a positive outlook in building the New India where there would be no corruption, hunger, exploitation and discrimination.

While recalling that India was an important global center of learning during the ancient times with students from foreign shores studying at reputed institutions like Takshashila and Nalanda in India, the Vice President urged the faculty and students of the university to focus on achieving academic excellence. People might have different ideologies, but the main ideology should be “academic excellence”, Mr Naidu added.

Pointing out that the nation was passing through a critical juncture and was facing many challenges, Mr Naidu asked the youth to be at the forefront of making India stronger on all fronts. He told the young minds to come up with innovative solutions to tackle the pressing problems from coronavirus to climate change. Expressing his concern over the degeneration of values, he urged the youth to follow India’s age-old civilizational ethos and culture.

He also urged the youth to be the torchbearers in eradicating Illiteracy, combating diseases, meeting challenges in the farm sector, ending social evils like discrimination in any form, atrocities on women and eliminating corruption.

Emphasizing that holistic education was the key to the development and transformation of the lives of the people, he called for reorienting the education system to meet the challenges of the 21st century while remaining wedded to Indian traditions and culture.

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