Prof. J.A.K. Tareen,Vice Chancellor, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, while addressing teachers and students, during the fourth convocation ceremony of the university on 8 October, highlighted the achievements of B.S. Abdur Rahman University since its inception, and lauded the role and efforts of people and well-wishers, who were instrumental in shaping up the institution to march ahead on the path of excellence.
Prof. Tareen, in his welcome address, remembered the Founder of this great institution, Dr. B.S. Abdur Rahman, who could not attend the ceremony due to health reasons and asked the people assembled there to pray for his good health. “It is my duty to briefly mention about this great, iconic, multifaceted, living legend, who is known as a self-made entrepreneur, philanthropist and social reformer, whose vision has generated jobs for over 70,000 in his businesses of over US$6 billion and provided education opportunities to thousands of youth and children. This University is one of the 15 institutions run by him.”
The Vice Chancellor also briefed the development of the University by saying that this University was started during the year 1984 as a Muslim Minority Self Financing Engineering College with just 3 branches of engineering programmes at Undergraduate level. After serving the society for 25 years, the College was accorded Deemed University Status by the Government of India (Ministry of Human Resource Development) on the recommendation of University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) after their joint inspection of the College. It started to function as a university since 2009.
The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Govt. of India, has accorded the status of a Minority Institute to B.S. Abdur Rahman University during March 2012. In April 2014, the University has been rated with “A” grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in the very first Cycle of Assessment. The University has also been admitted as Member of the Association of Indian Universities and Association of Commonwealth Universities. From 2013-14, the University functions with 10 Schools and 27 Departments, with addition of new Schools namely School of Life Sciences, School of Social Sciences, School of Physical & Chemical Sciences & School of Infrastructure.
“A student of 21st century has to be trained to have globally employable competence in the fast changing demands of the industry. We have realized from our experience that besides a sound foundation and knowledge in the areas of their core subjects, an employer is looking for knowledge and skills beyond their main specializations,” said the VC.
In his concluding remarks the vice chancellor thanked Chief Guest Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solutions for recruiting 715 students so far and 136 students this year alone.