Develop a sense of obligation: Javadekar to students

Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar has asked all fresh entrants to the Government-run higher educational institutions to develop "a sense of social obligation”  because people of this country have “subsidised” their education by paying taxes.

In his message to all students who have just been enrolled in various undergraduate programmes at universities and colleges across the country, he described them as the “Millennium’s new voters” and exhorted them to focus both on their studies and their over all development, saying they would decide the fate of this country "in ways more than one."  

Calling the students as his “friends,” Javadekar asked them to keep in touch with him through his accounts on various social media sites like Facebook and Twitter or by e-mail to keep him “abreast with any information which is important for public discourse.”   

The Minister has conveyed his message to the freshers in two separate letters—one for the students enrolled at the centrally funded higher educational institutions and the other for those admitted to the rest of the universities and colleges operating in different parts of the country.

“We have kept the fee in higher educational institutions, especially the ones managed by the Government, at the minimum. You should realise that the people of this country, especially the poor, are subsidising your education with their sweat and toil, and by the taxes that they pay,” the HRD Minister said in his message to the newly admitted undergraduate students of the centrally funded institutions.

“While you continue your study at least cost, please remember those who have actually paid for your education and your responsibility for their well-being when you come out of the institution. I am expecting you to develop a sense of social obligation to the society at large, who have great hopes for you as you study here,” he added.

The Minister noted the higher educational institutions are meant to create knowledge and disseminate them so that the larger society would gain from it.

“Civilisations are built over the knowledge gained from the higher education. Therefore, while entering the higher education arena,  you would realise that this phase of your life would determine the course of this country in the years to come. I earnestly urge you to focus on the work for which you came here so that when you leave this institution, you will go with knowledge and satisfaction,” he said in his message to all students.