01.03.2025: VP addresses 75th Anniversary Celebration of KPB Hinduja College in Mumbai

Publish Date: March 2, 2025

01.03.2025: Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar presided over the function to celebrate the 75 years of service in education by K P B Hinduja College of Commerce in Mumbai. Dr Smt Sudesh Dhankhar, Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan, Chairman of Hinduja Foundation Ashok Hinduja, Smt Harsha Hinduja and others were present.

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VP addresses 75th Anniversary Celebration of KPB Hinduja College in Mumbai

Posted On: 01 MAR 2025 8:02PM by PIB Delhi

The Vice-President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar today stated that, “ Philanthropic endeavour should not be driven by philosophy of commodification and commercialisation. Our health and education sectors are being plagued by these……..Corporate leaders should view investment in education beyond philanthropy. It is investment in our present, investment in our future and to put it straightway, it is investment for development of industry, business and trade”.

Delivering his address as Chief guest at the ceremony marking 75 years of K.P.B Hinduja College of Commerce in Mumbai, Maharashtra today , Shri Dhankhar stated, “ Education is the most impactful, transformative mechanism because it brings about equality. It cuts into inequities, it affords level playing field. It creates genius by discovering the genius through the path of education. Our framers of the Constitution were very wise men. They put education in the concurrent list. Those of you who are not lawyers, by concurrent list means it is a joint concern of the state and the union”.

Urging the industry and corporate leaders to contribute to education, Shri Dhankhar stated, “ I would appeal from this platform, a platform where I have witnessed that by way of philanthropy, it is giving back to the society. It is concurrent responsibility of the government and the private sector. Those in industry, trade, business and commerce must come forward and take initiative. I appeal the country’s private sector to rise to this occasion and accord the highest priority to education”.