JAMMU: Underlining knowledge and its related themes- human and intellectual capital, the key ingredients and yardstick to gauge success in the present world order, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said universities and higher educational institutions and young intellectual vanguard are the crucibles of change towards holistic development.
“Human agency along with dynamic institutions evolve permutation and combinations that lead to a creativity where synthesis becomes vital in the scheme of things,” Mr Abdullah said while addressing the gathering of scholars, faculty, educationists, students at the Jammu University convocation here.
The Chief Minister said, “The universities to use a metaphor that all of us can easily identified with, is the hardware of the nature of development while the students and intellectuals are its software.
“Both exist in a symbiotic relationship and find sustenance and nourishment from each other. No one is immune from the winds of change.”
He added that those who do not master this change will be severely disadvantaged.
Mr Abdullah said, “In the present new world order, we must shine within to radiate outward. We must allow wide space and scope for human agency and unleash the creative potential to attain new highs.
“State has great institutions of learning and development and the people are proud inheritors and legates of glorious intellectual traditions that go back to millennia. It is these fine traditions and legacies that we need to build upon and use as catalysts for a more vigorous transformation that keep us for ahead of the learning curve and change,” he added.
Wishing the passing out students all success in life ahead, the Chief Minister advised them to face all challenges and difficulties with bravely and confidently. “The degrees which have been the result of hard work, dedication and scholarly endeavours that we will give out validate your intellectual capacities, capabilities and academic credentials and integrity.
“The challenges are immense and profound. I have no doubt in my mind that all of you will take these on with gusto, make us proud and create an even better tomorrow for yourselves and the world at large,” said Mr Abdullah. (AGENCIES)
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