Addressing the 36 convocation ceremony of TU Tuesday, he said the country can be developed only through education and TU should focus on playing a leading role for the development of the education sector.[break]
Saying that TU has been providing education to nearly 90 percent students who hail from poor economic background, Shukla said the university has been producing qualified citizens who can compete globally.
TU should make efforts for healthy competition, quality education, self-dependence and bringing time-bound reforms, he said, adding that it has equal role to give equal opportunity to Dalits, women and other backward ethnic group to bring them into national mainstream.
On the occasion, Vice-Chancellor of University of Colombo Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama stressed that TU should focus on imparting quality education and urged the university to make best use of its educational achievements in national interest.
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Vice-Chancellor of TU Prof. Madhav Prasad Sharma said that TU has been introducing international level programmes and changing its curriculum for quality education. For this we have been tying up with several foreign universities, he said.
According to TU´s joint exam controller Krishna Prasad Acharya, 5,569 students of various levels took part in the convocation programme.
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