OP Jindal Global University graduates get degrees

More than 300 students of O P Jindal Global University have been awarded graduate and post-graduate degrees by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at the fifth annual convocation held here.
Jaitley distributed the certificates and addressed over 2,000 students, parents and faculty from all five schools of the university at the event held at the Siri Fort Auditorium.
The convocation was also attended by Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon Ltd, and Naveen Jindal, former MP and Chancellor of the university.
Sharing her thoughts, Shaw emphasised that students need to get passionately involved in converting challenges into opportunities and helping in alleviating human suffering while creating wealth and prosperity for all.

"Always remember that perseverance is the key to success and failure is temporary but giving up is permanent," she said.
Jindal, while expressing his thanks to Jaitley and Shaw for attending the event, lauded the university, saying: "It is being accepted as an exceptional private university in India that has produced high-quality research."

In his address, C Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor of the university lamented a lack of incentives to promote excellence in research in Indian universities causing the country to lag behind universities in the developed world.
He pointed out that a very small number of Indian universities have pursued internationalisation as a core strategy to promote deep institutional partnerships with universities across the world, and reap the benefits of international collaborations for teaching, research and the student experience.

Hailing the university for its commitment to promoting the role of women faculty, Kumar said, "47 per cent of our faculty members across the five schools are women, with 38 per cent of JGU's leadership positions tenured by our women faculty members.