Students should pursue knoweldge throughout life: Irani
Education was not a one-stop arrangement and students should pursue knowledge throughout their life to attain excellence, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said.
The Union Minister for Women and Child Development and Textiles was addressing students at the Annual Convocation of the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) here.
"Education is not a one-stop arrangement...If you seek knowledge for the rest of your life, you will attain excellence," she said.
Education was not limited to an institution, Irani said noting that the Convocation Day was not the end of the students' relationship with their institution but the beginning of a new chapter.
Around 1,700 students, including research scholars graduated from the city-based deemed varsity on Tuesday, with the Union Minister giving away the certificates and medals to the meritorious.
Irani, a former HRD Minister, pointed out that while a total of 331 research papers were published in the country in 2006, the number ..