Kiran Bedi campaigns for student power to make it Swachh Puducherry

Delivering the Convocation address at the Pondicherry University on the occasion of the 24th annual convocation, she said that Puducherry is a peaceful Union Territory which still retains the French flavour. 

She said that the country now needed ‘community leaders’ and people should join hands with the government machinery to ensure that various welfare measures were achieved to benefit the people. Calling upon the youth to realise their duties the Lt Governor said that she was happy to understand that Pondicherry University had come forward to carry out Swachch Bharat scheme. 

“There is vast scope to go several miles and around 50,000 students from Puducherry would join the movement to make Puducherry a cleaner and neater Union Territory,”she added. 

She said that the Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy (who was among those present at the convocation) had written a personal letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuring that Puducherry would emerge as an ‘open defecation free Union Territory’ by October 2, 2017.

Lt Governor gave away gold medals to meticulous students who performed well in various academics. Vice Chancellor (in charge) Anisa Basheer Khan who presented a report earlier said that 32,221 candidates had passed out of the university in under graduate courses during the last three years from 2013. The university had been sanctioned Rs 15.92 crores as grants for development of infrastructural facilities and enrichment of standards of teaching and research works by various departments.