Alumni are Spinal Strength of any institution, says Vice President Dhankar at IIT Madras

He said that start-ups have changed the attitude of an IITian from being job seekers to job creators in the country.

Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankar has said that the success of start-ups at IITs has changed IIT students from job seekers to job creators.

VP said that innovative thinking is in the DNA of Indians. “We only have to activate it and this is being activated in this institute. It is at the epicentre for this most wholesome development with the target to reach 1 million schools and college students,” VP Dhankar said.

Director of IIT Madras along with the faculty, during this Amrit Kal, 75th year of independence, will be creating those warriors who will shape the destiny of India in 2047.

Vice President speaking at IIT Madras’s inauguration of the Center for Innovation Facility said that alumni are the spinal strength of any institution. Institutions grow on the shoulders of the Alumni, their laurels and their contributions.

“Let us have a mechanism for a structured evolution of Alumni in all institutions. Those Alumni institutions will take care of our nationalism, our economic nationalism and our growth trajectory,” he said.

Innovative thinking is in our DNA. We only have to activate it and this is being activated in this institute. It is at the epicentre for this most wholesome development with the target to reach 1 million schools and college students. No doubt the target shall be attained.

A reference was made to Sudha Gopal Krishna's brain center. It is indeed an ambitious global project to map the human brain. Again, I reflect brain mapping will lead to larger good for humanity.

Dhankar said: “I'm extremely happy and satisfied to note a credible performance by IIT Madras, with its incubation cell hosting more than 300 start-ups with a collective valuation of nearly INR 40,000 crores.”

He said that this has changed the attitude of an IITian from being job seekers to job creators in the country.
Inviting IIT Madras students and faculty members to Delhi Dhankar said: “I would be extremely happy and delighted to host a group of IITians from Madras to be my guest in Delhi and see Delhi and Parliament.”

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