Citing his successes, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu urged the graduating class of Institute of Management Technology to innovate and avoid complacency.
Mr. Naidu was the chief guest at the convocation organised at the institutes’s Hyderabad campus on Tuesday. He handed out degrees to 173 graduates of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Management courses and medals to toppers of the 2015-17 batch. In his convocation address, Mr. Naidu said the graduating students are expected to do more than just keep a job.
“With a management degree in hand, you are more educated than me but I have practical experience in executing,” he further said, to laughter from the crowd. He recounted experiences of developing Hi-Tech City and bringing world-class educational institutes like ISB and IIIT to Hyderabad as innovations that helped the city at a time when it was out of reckoning.
Referring to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, he said he had no grievances about the separation, but now has the challenging task of building a new State and the city of Amaravathi. He said opposition to parting of land in development of Amaravathi does not persist and that several reputed private institutes are willing to operate in the State. He claimed that around 33,000 acres of land was procured by his government as people vested trust in him.
Mr. Kamal Nath in his address reminded the graduates about changes in global economic scenario, including Brexit and proposed policy changes of the US administration that is expected to affect the IT industry.
