Work hard with passion to achieve your goals, greater heights, scientist tells youth

Besides dreaming high about achieving the goals, the younger generation should have the passion for hard work to realise the dreams to enjoy unparalleled advancement in their career, Director of Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, A.P. Dimri said.

Delivering his address in the 32^nd convocation of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University here on Wednesday, Prof. Dimri said the students, who were entering the different phase of working in different fields should think about how well they would be remembered for their contribution to the family, the society and others. Since the future generation would follow only the deeds of success, today’s students should develop passion for hard work and love for the chosen job, which alone would bring them success.

He told the students that their success alone would narrate their stories to the future generations and hence they should work hard to conquer their dreams which should always be big. At the same time, the younger generation should learn from their failures as introspection and modified strategies would spell out the success mantra.

Prof. Dimri, a winner of Grove Karl Gilbert Award for Excellence in geomorphological research for his research on Chamoli disaster, also known as Uttarakhand flood, said that as there was huge need for experts based on the emerging societal needs, the startups should come-up with solutions for net zero emissions, climate change, disaster management, all with new dimensions by integrating international and national policies.

He exhorted the younger generation to work on sustainable development of cropping patterns, technologically advanced agriculture and low-cost execution to ensure minimal energy consumption.

Highlighting the MSU’s achievements, Vice-Chancellor N. Chandrasekar said the hard work of the teaching faculty, the quality researches and publications had bagged the MSU with broad-based curriculum with core and multidisciplinary components 37^th position in the Top 100 in NIRF India Ranking and A+ Grade.

“The C.V. Raman Central Instrumentation Facility established on an outlay of ₹20 crore on MSU campus has laid foundation for advanced interdisciplinary research,” Dr. Chandrasekar said.

A total of 759 candidates including 650 Ph.D. scholars including 108 men and 542 women and 109 medalists including 13 men and 96 women received their degrees during the convocation while 36,617 candidates students received the degrees in absentia. In all, 37,376 candidates including 11,638 men and 25,738 women received their degrees on Wednesday after the results of the final examination were declared in June last.