249 students conferred degrees

Vadodara/Anand: A total of 249 students were conferred degrees during the 40th annual convocation ceremony of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).
These include 215 students who were awarded the postgraduate diploma in management (rural management), 33 students who were awarded the postgraduate diploma in management (rural management - executive) and one student who was awarded the fellowship programme in management (rural management).
Narendra Singh Tomar, minister of agriculture and farmers welfare, rural development and food processing industries was chief guest, while Dr G R Chintala, chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), was guest of honour at the convocation ceremony that was held virtually on Thursday. Praising the vision of IRMA’s founder Dr Verghese Kurien, Tomar said that the institute was the realization of Kurien’s dream to professionalize rural management.
Invoking Dr Kurien’s legacy, Chintala paid his respects to Father of India’s White Revolution by saying that the scale of work done by Kurien is such that it has ensured that its benefits would be reaped by generations to come.