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Certificate of merit: The Chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and Governor Surjit Singh Barnala giving away a degree to a student at the 15th convocation held in Tirunelveli on Friday. TIRUNELVELI: Indian youth, who should have the doctrine of ‘Shaping the new world’, should have the capacity to adapt the situations rather than simply adapting to the situations, said the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, T. Ramasami has said. Delivering the 15th convocation address at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University here on Friday, Dr. Ramasami said learning, a process of assimilation of new knowledge and internalization of experiences, should lead to spiritual awakening and physical adaptation. However, the purpose of learning today was altered from the priority of spiritual awakening to one of the adaptation to the material world order by having higher education in places like IITs, IIMs, Business Schools of Harvard etc. In the changing paradigms of world order, where people were influenced and dominated by economic forces of the world, adaptation to the material aspects of the world had gained high priority while spiritual awakening was postponed to the later part of life. And more focus was on learning for increasing the standard of living and adaptation to the economic order, which should go. “The emerging world order links knowledge to economy and innovation to wealth creation. The challenge ahead of the Indian youth of the day is to learn to link knowledge to solve problems and create wealth. Though the modern India has learnt the methods of world order focused on adaptation, the learning by the youth should teach them changing the situation to its right position. Let us convert what seems as disadvantage in places like Tirunelveli as advantages,” he noted. The species, which refused to conform to the situation and learnt to adapt the environment, made the difference as they remained awake and aroused and such species made the world better although they might not have lived long. Hence, the Indian youth should learn the art of adapting the situations, he said. The Vice-Chancellor, Cynthia Pandian, gave a detailed account on the progress made by the university during the past one year, the new courses added and the phenomenal increase in the students’ strength in the university and also in the affiliated colleges. A total of 83 Ph.D. scholars and another 109 rank holders received their degrees in person from the Chancellor and Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, while 21,998 candidates receive their degrees in absentia. The girl students had performed well this time also, as 65 per cent of the total 22,198 candidates received their degrees were women. The Collector, G. Praksh, the City Police Commissioner, M.N. Manjunatha, the Mayor, Tirunelveli Corporation, A.L. Subramanian, the Deputy Mayor, K. Muthuramalingam, Senate and Syndicate members of MSU participated.
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