Honourable Chief Guest of the day, distinguished guests for the occasion,
co-faculty members, parents and all my dear friends and students. It is my
privilege to talk on this golden day of
Indian history which is the result of sacrifices of thousands of people. I
would like to discuss some achievements in these 66 years of Independence and
the challenges before India which is the largest democratic country in the
world and we very happy that India
crossed many milestones after independence and achieved many things in
different areas.
India is able to withstand attacks on democracy and successful in saving
it for 66 years. In agriculture achieved
self sufficiency by Green Revolution and white revolution, India is one of the
country having high GDP growth rate and in the area of Engineering and Technology it has contributed
to the development of the country in preparing advanced missile system, Launch
vehicle Technology, IT services ,nuclear technology etc.
The challenges that today India
facing are food security, internal security, external security, energy
security, and women security. Internal security , in the form of terrorism and
rise of naxalism due to socio-economic problems of the people. External security
threats from our neighbouring countries Pakistan and China. Energy Security as
India is not self sufficient in power which is the most important factor for
the development and even recent nuclear agreement will not solve the energy
problems of country completely and along with that economic recession, corruption , poverty and illiteracy rate are some of the
challenges before India to face and become super power. Last but important is
Women Security this aspect arises when the incidents like Delhi happens in the
country and to make India where women are well respected and protected. I feel we the people of India need one more
Independence struggle to weed out all the diseases suffering our society.
In
this context I would like mention that the ideas of our freedom fighters relevant
not only for India but also to the world .Today Gandhian philosophy that is , Non-
violence is more relevant in maintaining the global peace considering nuclear
world order and the
courage and braveness
of Sardar Vallabhai
Patel and Subash Chandra
Bose required to fight against the terrorism. The courage of Bagath Singh more
relevant for young India who sacrificed his life for the country at an early
age and we needs to get inspiration from Bagath Singh and get ready for the
sacrifices for the country and for the world peace.
In
addressing all these issue Engineers has to play a greater role and strive for
the betterment of the people and make the growth as inclusive growth and every
engineer has to bring out his leadership
skills in order move the people of India
to think towards the idea of Gross
Domestic Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product and involving ourselves in building healthy India by which young India
can become Global Super Power along
with by fighting for our fundamental rights and respecting our fundamental
duties enshrined in our Constitution.
“Mahatma Gandhi had advised us to avoid and I quote, “politics
without principles, wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce
without morality, science without humanity and worship without sacrifice”
Jai Hind..
