2020 showed us how unpredictable life could get. I appreciate team Jagannath University for taking the initiative to hold a e-alumni meet and bring us together though a virtual platform to share our thoughts. At outset I submit my condolence to the family and friends who lost their loved ones untimely. The pandemic hard hit the education sector as well. However,it also provided chance to bring the much-needed reforms in education policy and practiceso asto aspire to become a Vishwa Guru again. It is important for students who had the privilege to utilize the resources of the society, to not let their degrees remain just a 'qualification' but use this very powerful tool to give back to the society again.
Since learning knows no boundaries. Need of the hour is that we as a professional use the acquired knowledge, skills and aptitude to bring more equality, justice, harmony and prosperity to this nation and contribute in building Aatmanirbhar-Bharat. Success is assured when passion meets discipline. Though, not every endeavors brings the desired results but what it will surely bring is a lesson. Institutions and degrees must not remain as mere artifacts in the new paradigm and there has to be a utility in what we are delivering for one thing has been made very clear in the last year that not all tests are from the syllabus we have been mugging up since years and surely there can be no substitute to new ideas, innovations and evolution.