SRINAGAR, JULY 04: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today said he was feeling proud to see women achieving academic excellence.
“Proud to see our daughters breaking barriers and achieving success in Agricultural Science & Technology. Out of 150 students conferred with gold medals, 115 were women students. Out of 445 Certificates of Merit, 334 were conferred to girls. Out of a total of 5250 degrees of undergraduate, master’s, and PhD in today’s convocation, 2661 degrees have been awarded to women students. It reflects a bright future for J&K and the nation,” the Lieutenant Governor said.
He was addressing the 6th Convocation Ceremony of SKUAST Kashmir at Srinagar.
In his address, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha congratulated the University for creating a competent and competitive human resource, shaping up the farm sector in J&K UT, a remarkable improvement in its ranking, and also wished the students for their bright future.
He extended his felicitations to the women students for their excellent academic performance across the subjects.
The Lieutenant Governor, in his address, spoke on the transformative reforms taking place in agriculture and allied sectors in the UT of Jammu Kashmir over the past few years.
“Under the visionary leadership of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the agriculture and allied sector has truly become a mainstay of India’s economy. This change is strongly reflected in J&K’s agriculture landscape. Today, the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP) has emerged as a role model of agricultural revolution in the entire country,” he said.
He highlighted that in the last five years, Jammu and Kashmir has set 4 major goals for agriculture and allied sectors – to transform the agriculture sector into a sustainable-commercial agriculture economy, to create an agri-business ecosystem with value chain, farmer and community-centric approach for holistic development of agriculture and to increase the income of farming families and secure their livelihood.
The Lieutenant Governor urged the graduating students to make their valuable contribution to innovation and progressive farming and take the lead in agri-technology, food technology, and groundbreaking innovation. Your passion and ideas will shape the future of India’s Agriculture sector, he said.
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. And, I firmly believe that if education is under the times and the needs of the global industry, then it is the most precious asset of the society,” the Lieutenant Governor said.