Vice President inaugurates Puducherry Technological University

Puducherry Technological University (PTU) is the first state university of the Union Territory of Puducherry which has been constituted by upgrading Pondicherry Engineering College established in 1986. 

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu urged educational institutions to have an increased interface with the industry to promote result-oriented research that addresses contemporary challenges such as climate change, pollution, health and poverty. 

Inaugurating the Puducherry Technological University, the Vice President said it was the cutting-edge research in science, technology and other fields that put developed countries ahead of the rest. He asked the students to conduct socially relevant research and come up with out-of-box ideas to make the nation strong and bring prosperity and happiness in people’s lives. 

Puducherry Technological University (PTU) is the first state university of the Union Territory of Puducherry which has been constituted by upgrading Pondicherry Engineering College established in 1986. 

Praising the Atal Incubation Centre, set up at the institute, for successfully incubating 15 start-ups in diverse areas such as electronic design, manufacturing and drone technologies, the Vice President said India was scaling new heights in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. He expressed happiness over India becoming the world’s third largest start-up ecosystem and said with the opening of the space sector for private players, several promising start-ups had come up in this sector. 

Emphasising the need to provide equal opportunities for women, Naidu called for ending artificial barriers created in the name of caste, religion and gender. “You must prepare a generation to see that all kinds of social discriminations are put to an end,” he said to the university authorities. 

Terming the huge youth population as the core strength of New India, he urged the educational institutions to infuse a spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship and experimentation among the students so that they are able to drive the nation forward. 

Congratulating the people of Puducherry on getting their first state university, Naidu said it would offer many additional opportunities to excel such as collaboration with international universities and autonomy in starting new courses. 

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