KTR Hands Over Laptops, Uniforms To IIIT Basara Students

Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao handed over laptops and uniforms to students of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT Basara), also known as IIIT Basara, on Saturday.

Rao participated in the 5th convocation ceremony of RGUKT Basara as the Chief Guest along with his cabinet colleagues Sabitha Indra Reddy and Allola Indrakaran Reddy, and awarded degrees to the graduating students and gold medals to the most meritorious among them.

Stating that the State government was strengthening higher education ecosystem, the minister asked the graduating students to focus on three Ds - Digitisation, Decarbonisation and Decentralization - which would present huge opportunities in the near future.

He also requested Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy to introduce a practice school or apprenticeship model so that the students received industrial exposure while studying.

The minister also urged the students to leverage T-Hub's Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) facilities to walk in with an idea and walk out with a product.

As part of the promise he made to the RGUKT Basara students in September that laptops would be presented to them, KTR handed over about 2,200 laptops and 1,500 desktops to the students.

Former MP S Venugopala Chary, Mudhole MLA G Vittal Reddy, RGUKT Vice-Chancellor Prof V Venkata Ramana, RGUKT Director S Satheesh Kumar and others were present.