Take advantage of global challenges: Modi

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said the time has now come for converting global challenges into opportunities.

He was speaking as the chief guest at 'Widening horizons', the two-day meet of H L College Alumni Association (HLCAA) which concluded in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

Additional solicitor general, Gujarat, Kirit Raval, while recalling his days as a student of H L College, said there is a need to bring back the days of discipline and sincere learning.

He said competitive learning and the changing scenario of globalisation have to go together with an improvement in ethical and moral values.

Union minister of state for tourism Bhavna Chikhaliya, state energy and petrochemicals minister Saurabh Dalal, several noted economists, lawyers, chartered accountants and social workers, all alumni of the college, were present for the function.

The Mahajans of Ahmedabad had set up the H L College in Ahmedabad in 1936 and since then, the college has produced a large number of eminent persons. It is considered to be one of the premiere commerce college of the state.

A special booklet on the event was also released at the event. The chief minister mentioned that Mahatma Gandhi, who was instrumental in setting up Gujarat Vidyapith in 1930, and Kasturbhai Lalbhai and others, who set up H L College of Commerce, were visionaries, who envisaged the role of students in India's freedom struggle.

The college principal G A Pathak said attempts of the college to provide the best learning infrastructure has reflected in the step to introduce various self financed courses in management, commerce, computers and other professional areas.

In 1999, H L extended its brand name to other institutes which started functioning on the H L college campus and all sister institutions put together, over 4,500 students are provided education in the campus.