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PANAJI
Vice-President of India Venkaiah Naidu on Monday cited the country’s population explosion to tell graduating students at the Goa University’s 32nd convocation ceremony to “go abroad if you want”.
Delivering his convocation address at the Kala Academy after congratulating students who graduated, Naidu expressed that he knew that some students might be thinking of going abroad, and encouraged them to do so.
“Some of you might be thinking of going abroad. Go. Earlier I used to discourage, but today there is no problem, we have enough population. If you want to go, go. But my three word advice is go, learn, earn and return to give something back to your motherland,” Naidu told the audience mostly of students, academicians and industry representatives.
The Vice-president, known for his rhyming wisecracks, also urged students to “continue learning even while earning.”
Meanwhile, Naidu also took the opportunity to joke about President Trump’s India visit. “We’re living in a global village. What is happening in Goa is known in Portugal and Washington in a few minutes. In fact, Washington is coming today,” he said to laughs from the packed audience.
Naidu also stayed true to the right-wing discourse which is becoming increasingly Work towards improving GU
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PANAJI: While praising GU for being ranked 93rd in the country by the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF), vice president of India Venkaiah Naidu said he would be “much more happy” if the GU was ranked much higher.
“I’m happy that it’s 93rd but I’ll be much more happy if it’s way more than 93rd. You should all think about it and take it up as a challenge to be amongst the first 10 or 20,” he said.
In the BRICS ranking which places GU at 250, Naidu exhorted students and the management to try and get the ranking up to the top 100.
