Asking students to use their knowledge for benefit of society, Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi today said they should utilise their skills learnt at the university for poverty eradication.
"You are fortunate to have got education at a university like this. Think of students who cannot get admission into such universities and colleges. You must now use your skills to eradicate poverty which exists in our country even 65 years after Independence," he told the first convocation of ICFAI University here.
Education has a meaning only when it is utilised to build the society, he said, asking students to understand their responsibility towards the nation.
"Create a new social order where there is no inequality, no exploitation, remember the dreams which Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru had seen for independent India," he said.
Around 180 students of different disciplines were awarded with degrees at the convocation.
First established in 1984 in Andhra Pradesh, the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) universities now exist in ten states - Uttarakhand, Tripura, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
