8/3/2019 Jasmin Speech

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8/3/2019 Jasmin Speech

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This function is the Reunion between you & your formerclassmates.This function is the reunion betweenYou and youralma mater, the institute thathelped to shape your future.This moment provides an opportunity that revoke nostalgia.I hope many of you after this reunion here will have formed new friendships, or

have created new career opportunities.When you entered in the campus, you may have noticed many physical changes,the statue, the buildings, the campus.The structural buildings & facilities are assets in development of every institute .The greatest asset of any institute is its people the students, the faculty, theadministration and you, the Alumnus.

A good institute can measure its worth by its alumni.Our Alumnus are performing extremely well at various places and positionsthroughout the world.

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The session began with the voice of the institute; the institute song. The anchor,Mr. R. S. S. Mani, an ex-faculty, welcomed the audience and introduced the members on the dais, who were facilitated withbouquets which included the Director,Prof. S. Parasuraman, the Deputy Director,Prof. Usha S. Nayar,Prof. Armaity S. Desai, Chairperson of the Governing Board,Mr. R. K. Krishna Kumar. Dean ofStudent Affairs, Prof. Nasreen Rustomfram and the General Secretary of the Students Union,Mr.Sanjay Pradhan and the registrar, Mr. Sandeep Chatterjee.

Prof. Usha Nayaraddressed the audience greeting them with overwhelming affection. She said thatTISS is playing a significant role through research education and influencing the policies towards people-centered development. She said that keeping in view of the legacy of the institution, recently the institutehas been re-structured, re-imagined and re-defined in response to the changing needs in the society andin an attempt to address the problems in society and work towards change that reached out to all.Prof. Nasreen Rustomfram then spoke of the genesis of the entire event. The event was a culminationof the efforts made by the institute in the past two years to re-connect with its alumni. Its conceptionoccurred with the present students union putting it on the annual agenda and the sustained efforts of acritical mass of student, faculty and administrative staff. She highlighted the expectations from this meetwhich was to create a forum for a dialogue between the alumni, institute and the students, to set up aprocess of active participation of the alumni in the future development of the institute, to encouragenetworking and have an ongoing relationship with them.Mr. Sanjaya Pradhan,General Secretary of Students' Union, spoke on the occasion about thestrengthening of roots that was required for the institute which could do a lot for the students once theypass out.

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