Principal’s speech
on 15th August 2015
My Dear Staff & My Dear students,
My Greetings to you all on this
happy occasion of 69th Independence Day of our Great Country.
Do you Know why
all of you are asked to come early in the morning to celebrate this day as a
National festival, salute the flag, and to sing our beautiful National Anthem? On
this day we pay our respects to all those freedom fighters who sacrificed their
Health, wealth, family & life for the Independence of our country. We draw
inspiration from their lives. We remember the Freedom fighters, soldiers,
workers, scientists, farmers developing this country. When we salute the
National flag, we are saluting Bharatmatha.
When we sing the National Anthem we remember the glory of our great country.
We got Independence
from the foreign rulers due to our freedom fighters. The people of India fought
a series of hard and bitter battles for their lost liberty. They were fighting
with British invaders from 1757 to 14th August 1947. There was civil
disobedience movement – I & II. In April 1930 Gandhiji launched the salt
satyagraha. With civil disobedience came the boycott of British goods &
civil resistance to unjust laws. Responding to the appeal of Mahatma Gandhi,
men & women joined the campaign in thousands for open confrontation with
the enemy in the battle of freedom. Hundreds of people were imprisoned, shot &
killed by the British govt. to create reign of terror throughout India. Bhagat singh,
Chandrasekhar Azad, many people in Jalinwala Bagh incident sacrificed their
lives to make our country independent. Try to understand the sacrifice of
Bhagat singh and the death of Chandrasekhar Azad in Allahabad and the struggle
unto death by Alluri sitarama raju. Independence means freedom from slavery,
injustice and looting of our resources by the foreigners who invaded our
country. The slogan and temper in the hearts of the people during freedom
movement was “Freedom is our Birth Right
and we want our India’s Independence”. In this way we fought and got our
first Independence day on 15th August 1947.
Now students if
you feel that our country has developed it is once again the contribution of
many thousands of citizens of our country & if you feel that our country is
still in lot of problems and people are suffering it means the citizens
especially the youth force should contribute for the peace and welfare of our
country. When citizens struggle for improvement, the fruits of Independence will
reach the people. For this to happen we should
1.
Nor give importance to caste, creed & other differences
and act as brothers & sisters of this country. We should be Smart in our
understanding the situations in our country. We are talking about smart cities
in our country which are essential but most essential are the smart citizens in
our country. Smart citizens simply mean those who know what is good & what
is bad our country and contribute their best in spite of so many temptations.
2.
We should always be inspired by the freedom
fighters, the working class and do our duty.
3.
As students you should concentrate on your
studies and show human kindness towards the poor, weak, old, handicapped. You should
respect the women, support the junior students and understand your
responsibility and perform with the highest self-confidence. Remember Swami Vivekananda words ‘The essence of
education is concentration of mind and not the collection of facts’. Your future
depends on today’s harvest. “I work only
for the development of my country” are the golden words of Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, our hero for
the present generation. I remind you that 40 Universities awarded doctorates to
him.
Regarding our
institution we have the hard work and support of all our Teaching & Non-Teaching
staff. We all work as family members. Is it not? We want our students to be
successful. Yesterday we have inaugurated our polytechnic website. It is
www.gpadk.edu.in . our RJD in his mail
congratulated the Computer Engg. Staff for
this achievement. As a best practise I want them to offer free service in
examination fee payment, scholarship registration and guide them in the use of
internet. If you have any problem in receiving the Govt. Scholarship please
approach me since I take up student scholarship work personally. Soon we are
going to conduct the Anti-Ragging meeting; parent-teacher meeting and we will
celebrate Teachers day, Engineers day, Freshers day, a few Games competitions
and photo session with final year students. I want you to prepare well for the
unit tests for III/VI sem students from Monday. Please take the help of our
staff in achieving better results. I appreciate the efforts of those staff
taking extra remedial classes in the morning times.
Our motto is “To do honest work for the development of our country as a smart
citizen”. I thank the staff in organising this function nicely.
Thank
you all and JAI HIND.