President of India Attends the 90th Convocation of University of Delhi

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the 90th Annual Convocation of University of Delhi and conferred medals to meritorious students today (March 19, 2013).

Speaking on the occasion the President said that if our country has to continue on its path of higher growth, then the relentless pursuit of higher educational standards is an indispensable requirement for its achievement. To make education accessible to more students, our efforts must be directed at bringing higher education closer to our population to particularly those in remote corners of the country, he said. He stated that the time is now ripe to deploy innovative technologies for greater coverage and for improvising modules that can enable better learning.

The President said that if we are to redefine the way education is imparted by our educational institutions, the time is now. We must develop our universities into global leaders, and for that, the best practices in other countries should be carefully studied and adopted with necessary changes to suit our conditions, he added.

The President congratulated the University of Delhi for marking one more year of success in delivering meaningful quality education.

This release issued at 1700 hrs