Ramesh Pokhriyal Lays Foundation Stone Of JNU’s Engineering & Management Schools

New Delhi: The foundation stone of the buildings for School of Engineering and Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship was laid by Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) via a virtual event on Monday.

JNU vice-chancellor Professor M Jagadesh Kumar, Rector I Prof Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector II Prof Satish Chandra Garkoti, Rector III Prof Rana Pratap Singh and the deans of the new schools, Prof Unnat Pandit and Prof Satyavrat Patnaik were the dignitaries and intellectuals present on the occasion, according to a release by the Ministry of Education.

Pokhriyal congratulated Prof Jagadesh Kumar for taking JNU to new heights of progress and initiating realisation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Registrar Prof Pramod Kumar gave the vote of thanks, reported news agency ANI.

“I was extremely happy to lay the foundation of Academic Complex for School of Engineering and ABV School of Management and Entrepreneurship at JNU today,” the Union Minister tweeted.

“The schools have been named after former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji, whose vision keeps inspiring us. It was an honour for me to lay the foundation stones of schools named after him,” the minister said.

“I congratulated JNU on the Schools of Management and Engineering and believe that they will play an important role in making Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji’s dream of an Aatma Nirbhar Bharat come true,” Pokhriyal added.