Students urged to think big, work hard, lead

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 11

The annual convocation was held at the CT Institutes and St Soldier Group of Colleges on Saturday. On Friday also, 200 students from Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus received their B Tech degrees.

1,127 CT students get degrees

A cheerful and heart-warming scenario was witnessed during the 7th Convocation of CT Group of Institutions. As many as 1,127 postgraduates and graduates of 2019 and 2020 passed out batches were awarded degrees in a convocation ceremony. The chief guest for the occasion was Padma Shri Pargat Singh, Cabinet Minister of Punjab. He delivered the convocation address. In his address, Padma Shri Pargat Singh shared the tale of his success and stressed on the introduction of the new technology.

He said, “I just want to tell all students that after stepping out today of the premises, you must go back and calmly understand yourself and the importance of what and why of your life. You should stop searching for negativity and start seeing positive things in every situation. This will change your inside out. You must work hard with a positive mindset in order to touch the pinnacle of success.”

The welcome speech was delivered by Campus Director Dr Rahul Malhotra and the convocation was declared opened by Chairman Charanjit S Channi. The convocation was organised by Dean Academics Dr Anupamdeep Sharma along with Dr Jasdeep Kaur Dhami, Director Research and staff members. At the convocation, 230 postgraduate and 897 undergraduate students of pharmacy, hospitality, engineering and other streams were honoured.

Charanjit Singh Channi, CT Group Chairman, said, “My experiences prompt me to say that today’s achievement may fade or be even forgotten. Your certificates and medals may gather dust on a shelf or displayed on the wall. But you always will be remembered for caring enough, for helping someone, for making someone feel special and appreciated for being the kind. I have no doubt that you will get the very best in life.”

CT Group Managing Director Manbir Singh and Vice Chairman Harpreet Singh thanked the Chief Guest for accepting to grace this day with his presence.

On this occasion, CT University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Harsh Sadawarti, Maqsudan Campus Director Dr Yogesh Chhabra, industrialists namely Sarvjit Samra, MD- Capital Small Finance Bank; Dr Naresh Nagpal- Retired Additional Director- Department of Technical Education, Punjab; Parveen Ahuja; Narender Saggu- President, Industrial Focal Point Association; Charanjit Maingi- General Secretary, Jalandhar Chamber of Industries and Commerce; Advocate Mandeep S Sachdev; Ashok K Sangwan from Wipro etc were present along with the faculty of CT Group of Institutions.

452 students receive degrees at St Soldier

St Soldier Law College and St Soldier Co-ed College organised its 11th convocation in which 308 passed out students of LLB, BA (Law), B Com (Law), BA LLB, and 108 students of BA, B Com, BPT and BCA awarded with degrees. The programme was started by lighting the lamp. Education Minister Punjab Pragat Singh was the chief guest on the occasion. Controller Examination of Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar Prof Dr Manoj Kumar, Chairman Anil Chopra and Vice-Chairperson Sangeeta Chopra graced the occasion as special guests.

They were welcomed by Managing Director Prof Manhar Arora, Law College Director Dr Subhash Sharma, Degree College Director Dr Veena Dada and others. The annual report was read out by the law college director Dr Subhash Sharma.

Pragat Singh and all the guests presented degrees to the students and those who performed excellent in academics, university position holders, sports, cultural and other activities. In his convocation address, Education Minister Pargat Singh, while explaining the bright opportunities in the legal profession, said one should work hard to achieve his goal. He advised the students to carve a name for themselves in the world by learning from the youthful spirit and experience of the seniors.

200 get B Tech degrees at LKCTC

Nearly 200 B Tech students were awarded degrees at the annual convocation organised at School of Engineering of Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus here yesterday.

Dr RK Gupta (VC, Maharaja Agrasen University, Solan, HP), gave the convocation address. He stated that the Khalsa College Lyallpur Education Charitable Trust has a glorious past of more than 100 years in the in the field of education. The trust is running a number of multi-disciplinary educational institutions with strength of nearly 10,000 students in the areas ranging from arts, science, law, education and literature to management and IT, he said.

The institute’s report was presented by the Dr SK Sood (Director LKCTC). He stated that our vision is to be a vibrant and innovative centre of education, research, executive training and consultancy in technical education; to develop a cadre of socially responsive technocrats, entrepreneurs and professionals, thereby fulfilling the contemporary needs of the industry, business, government and the community at large, both locally and nationally. He further added that many students of the campus have bagged top merit positions in the examinations conducted by IKG-PTU. These students have also been honored by the institute and are also given scholarships to encourage them.

Thereafter Dr SK Sood (Director LKCTC) declared the convocation open. Higher Education Minister Pargat Singh was chief guest of the day. Dr SK Sood (Director, LKCTC) welcomed the chief guest, members of Governing Council, invited dignitaries and recipients of degrees. The dignitaries present were Balbir Kaur (President, Governing Council), Urmiljeet Kaur (Secretary), Jaspal Singh Waraich (Joint Secretary), Dr Ekonkar Singh Johal (Dy. Registrar College Development IKGPTU), Sukhbir Singh Chatha (Director, Academic Affairs KCL Group, and Dr RS Deol (Dy Director, Academic Affairs, KCL Group).

At the end, Dr RS Deol (Dy Director AA KCL Group) presented vote of thanks. He congratulated all graduating students who worked hard and have completed their degrees.

After the completion of convocation, alumni meet was organised in which alumni of the institutes interacted with each other and with the current engineering students. Alumni of the institute guided their juniors for the strong academia and efforts to be put on for good placements. Then a cultural programme for the alumini took place. At the end vote of thanks was presented by Dean Alumni Dr Pooja Dhand giving the best wishes to the alumni of School of Engineering and the current students.