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Rourkela: The 22nd foundation day of Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT) was celebrated here with participation of industry stalwarts and professionals. The occasion was graced by Dr Tapan Chand, a well-known industry professional and President of Vedanta. Professor Amiya Kumar Rath,Vice Chancellor, BPUT presided over the function.
In his keynote address to the jam-packed audience in the BPUT Auditorium, Dr Tapan Chand paid rich tribute to the great son of mother India, the legendary and visionary architect of modern Odisha, Late Biju Pattnaik, after whose name the university has been named. He conveyed his heartfelt best wishes to the students, university team members on the grand occasion of 22nd Foundation Day Celebration of BPUT. Dr Chand complimented the Vice Chancellor and the team of professors, faculties, staff and students for their dedicated service in making BPUT a center of technical learning and research. He further added that the vision of BPUT to emerge as a global brand in technical education and its mission to be a global center of learning and research will be achieved sooner than later by the BPUT team given the level of energy and enthusiasm they are working with.
Before the august audience of top technocrats, professors, professionals, staff, scholars and students, he narrated with excellence the role of young technocrats in making of New India and catapulting it to the position of Third Largest Economy in the world. He also touched upon the dream of New Odisha to be 1Trillion Dollar economy. Dr Chand emphasized that growth of GDP will bring increase in per capita income and the purchasing power of the people, which in turn will enable them to have better standard of living. Major challenge before the country today is to provide meaningful engagement to ever increasing people in the working age group and this demographic dividend need to be cultivated. He advised students to front lead the efforts in creating employment opportunities by becoming employer adding value not employee drawing salary.
Dr Chand informed that industries are rich reservoirs of projects and business opportunities and the young technocrats of BPUT should develop strong industry connect through industry visit, internship, outreach engagements etc to understand the need of industry and develop their product accordingly. In this connection, he mentioned about NALCO Angul Aluminium Park and Vedanta Jharsuguda World Class Aluminium Park, where number of MSMEs can be setup for producing value-added products. There are 120 parks, hubs and clusters, some in existence and some are in making, where opportunities are galore.
Poonam Minz Register of the university presented annual report. Swarup Rath Chief Architect & Partner TCS spoke on qualities of a good professional & benefit of listening. Prof Amiya Kumar Rath Vice Chancellor BPUT informed about the collaborative MoUs with top professional institutes including NASSCOM.
The foundation function was also addressed by other dignitaries. Swaroop Kumar Rath, Chief Architect & Business Partner TCS, Professor Bibhuti Bhushan Biswal, Vice Chancellor-OUTR & Professor Amiya Kumar Rath, Vice Chancellor, BPUT presided over the function.
Worth mentioning, the Biju Pattnaik University of Technology – BPUT, Rourkela was established by an Act of Odisha Legislative Assembly in June 2002. The University started functioning at Rourkela as its headquarter from 21st November and began admission of students to its constituent and affiliated colleges from the academic session 2003-04. Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the then President of India laid the foundation stone on 15.05.2003 at Chhend, Rourkela.
BPUT is the first technical university of the state and the biggest university of Odisha with 173 colleges in engineering, pharmacy, management, computer application and science and architecture, with over 1 lakh students and 1 million alumni.
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