Overview
- Calling drug abuse a serious challenge in Punjab, she sought a lasting solution and asked GNDU stakeholders to guide youth in the right direction.
- She cast the next two decades to 2047 as decisive for a developed India, urging students to ensure their careers strengthen the nation and human values.
- She pointed to advances in technology and entrepreneurship and urged more research, stronger industry–academia collaboration, and socially relevant innovation from agriculture to AI, defence and space.
- She praised GNDU’s emphasis on women’s empowerment, noting the dominance of female recipients among degrees and medals awarded at the ceremony.
- The university conferred honorary doctorates on Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Jasvir Gill, and the President plans to attend NIT Jalandhar’s convocation on Friday.