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New Delhi : Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ laid the foundation of the buildings for School of Engineering and Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on January 4, 2021, through a virtual programme.
Vice Chancellor, JNU, Prof. M Jagdish Kumar, Rector I Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector II Prof. Satish Chandra Garkoti, Rector III Prof. Rana Pratap Singh, and the deans of the new schools, Prof. Unnat Pandit and Prof. Satyavrat Patnaik were present on the occasion.
Pokhriyal expressed his delight at the naming the School of Management in the name of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was not only an efficient and visionary Prime Minister of India, but an inspiring author too. The Minister mentioned that engineering and management education will complement each other and will inspire the youth to become entrepreneurs and self-reliant.He hoped that the proposed building with world-class facilities will be endowed with technology-based pedagogy and development of learners, according to a PIB release.
Pokhriyal also congratulated Prof. M Jagadesh Kumar for taking the University to new heights of progress and initiating realisation of National Education Policy 2020 with new initiatives. The vote of thanks was given by the registrar of the University Prof. Pramod Kumar.