GUWAHATI: Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi today honoured two meritorious students, one each from Under Graduate and Postgraduate level of Cotton University with the 'Governor's Excellence Award to Meritorious Students for the year 2021' at a function held at the KBR Auditorium in the university campus today.
The students honoured are Gyanashree Saikia, a postgraduate student from Geography Department and Karabi Devi, an undergraduate student from the Mathematics department. The Governor presented a gold medal, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 5,000 to each of the students for books.
The Governor said, "I am really happy to use Governor's discretionary funds to institute the award christened Assam Governor's Award for Excellence to Meritorious Students. I have provided a grant of Rs10,000,00 from my discretionary fund to four educational institutions, including Cotton University, which will be parked in a fixed deposit account and the annual interest accrued from the same would be utilized for the cost of the Gold Medal to the meritorious student of undergraduate and postgraduate level. Though we have started this award currently in four educational institutes only, we shall envision giving this award in other institutions also in the coming days."
The Governor congratulated the awardees and said that the award aims to encourage higher education, acknowledge success, appreciate the efforts of the student and also motivate and encourage other students to come up and show their zeal in education. The award is to encourage and promote excellence in the education sector to achieve enhanced commitment to quality education, innovation and professional development.
Prof Mukhi said that "the university has moved from a knowledge-disseminating centre to imparting useful education in the context of the emergence of a 'professional' and intellectual society, at a time when knowledge becomes globally more available, and widely shared and circulated. In almost five years as a public university, the institution has grown rapidly with significant forays in new disciplinary learning and curriculum. The ability of the university's dynamic leadership to mould itself to digital technologies and the requirement of the mandate of New Education Policy-2020 signifies its adaptive culture that holds out promise for the future."
Prof Mukhi also said, "We live in a world where technology surrounds us. Technological products and applications are changing our lives every moment. Space travel is no longer a distant dream. Artificial Intelligence and robotics are no longer science fiction. The relationship between humans and machines is evolving before our eyes. Indeed, this is all exciting but let it not divert our attention from basic science research. Cotton University is a reputed and established name in higher education in the state, should take a lead in championing the cause of basic science research and at the same time create patronage for applied science".
The Governor also released a book named 'Anirbapita Anal' which has been published by Cotton University synchronizing with the celebrations of the nation's 75 years of India's Independence as Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. The University has taken the initiative to honour India's glorious history through the publication of a book which is a living document of the equal participation and endless struggle of the women freedom fighters from Assam in the two hundred years of history of the freedom movement. He also released a booklet prepared from the translation of a few chapters of Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj and unveiled the institution's new Website.
Vice-Chancellor of Cotton University, Prof Bhabesh Chandra Goswami, Director of NEIST-Jorhat G Narahari Sastry, Registrar Cotton University, Deans, Academic Registrar, Director Students' Welfare, Heads of Departments and Centres, Faculties and students of the university were present at the programme, a press release said.
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