Students must take Innovative Steps and be Entrepreneurs: IITG Dean
01st Sep, 2018 131Students must take Innovative Steps and be Entrepreneurs: IITG Dean
9th Mile, Baridua, Ri Bhoi, September 1, 2018: An innovative mind is must for young students while pursuing competitive and higher studies. Students should never be hesitant to take innovative steps and become entrepreneurs to take forward the nation towards progress. This was stated by Dr Saurabh Basu, Professor of Physics & Dean Education Outreach Program, IIT, Guwahati while addressing as the chief guest in the new engineering students’ get together programme at the Regional Institute of Science and Technology here yesterday.
Addressing the students, Prof Basuexplained how to crack different competitive entranceexams like JEE, JAM, GATE that leads to study in IIT. He advised the students to go through previous five years’ entrance question papers so that they can get the concepts which will help the students to crack the exams. He also advised students to go through various books as well as online learning portals. “With hardwork and dedication only one can achieve successâ€, he added.
Among the different events held, a special attraction of the programme was the contests of Mr and Ms Freshers 2018, which was judged by popular figures like RJ Mandy, Udayan Deworah and Achyut Kalita. Special award for highest attendance of student for academic session August 2017 to July-2018 was also given.
Earlier, Dr PC Mahanta, Director, RIST welcomed all the participants and guests. The programme was also addressed by Dr. P.K Goswami, Vice Chancellor, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya while the vote of thanks was delivered by Dr PK Pathak. Head of the Department of Civil, RIST.
