![]() Bharat Forge-BITS Pilani Convocation Ceremony heldPublished on Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 18:15 | Source : Moneycontrol.com Updated at Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:30
The Convocation Ceremony of the First Batch of the B.S.(Manufacturing Engineering) Programme conducted by Bharat Forge Limited in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani was held at Hotel Le Meridien, on Saturday, 18th August 2007. The degree was awarded to 35 students for the first batch of B.S. (Manufacturing Engineering) for the year 2007 by Dr L K Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor, BITS, Pilani. The ceremony began by awarding the best students of the year Mr Santoshsingh Thakur, Mr Vishal Phaltankar and Mr Sunil Pawar who had not only consistently excelled in their theoretical studies but also obtained the overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. The winners were then presented with the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals and a gift cheque by the Chief Guest Dr L K Maheshwari. Speaking at the occasion, Dr L K Maheshwari, Vice- Chancellor, BITS PIlani in his Keynote Address said that "Organisations of today cannot be organizations of the 19th century. They have to be organizations of the 21st century, which means that they have to be Learning Organizations". Talking about the rapid advances that are being made in technology, he said that it is a prediction that technology is going to develop every 11 hours, which means that each one of us has to be a student throughout our life. Stressing on education he said that it is education and education alone which can make a company proud and take it forward. It is education which has always succeeded in the world and in days to come it will be education & research that will ultimately lead technology, he added. On March 30, 2004, Bharat Forge Ltd signed a MoU with BITS, Pilani for a synergistic relationship in Human Resource Development. As a part of the MoU, BITS was to conduct a program at BFL which would primarily, enable BITS to offer a degree course equivalent to BE to the Kalyani Group employees.
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