At the inauguration of the post-centenary golden jubilee programme of the University of Calcutta, on January 17 2006, Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam said that entrepreneurship as a subject should be included in the syllabi of colleges and universities for reducing the now alarming unemployment in the country. “The country produces three million graduates every year and seven million who have completed their Plus Two. Of these four million remain unemployed. Every university should see that those who do not go into higher education have a set of vocational skills to see them established in life”, he added. Commenting on the online interconnectivity of the three Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai, he said, “Not only should the three universities share their knowledge and resources, CU should also have the facility to connect all its three hundred affiliated colleges”. Kalam urged the University’s researchers to design a silicon cell to be used in carbon nanotube technology to produce solar energy.
Speaking in Bengali, West Bengal Governor hoped that the students would endeavour to uplift people’s lives instead of just making a career and a living. Referring to the joint hundred and fifty years celebrations of the Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai, he said, “they should ensure that they do not create generations of digital clerks, but spirited youngsters”.
Other dignitaries gracing the occasion were West Bengal higher education minister Satya Sadhan Chakraborty, University Grants Commission Chairman V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Calcutta University Vice-Chancellor Asis Kumar Banerjee, Madras University Vice-Chancellor S P Tyagrajan, Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Vijay Khole, among others.
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