“Let me do my best for my society by
educating at least ten people around me,!” was the motto of a young adult from a village in Andhra Pradesh, whose noble aim resulted in the starting of a tutorial or a coaching centre for job aspirants. Having
seen first-hand many of his friends and relatives drop-out from school and
college due to lack of right guidance and motivation, he then took it upon himself
to start Vignan High School in 1983, and from then on, it was no turning back.
Due to his Tagorian ‘tireless striving that stretches its arms towards
perfection’, today, this humble man has been instrumental in setting up numerous degree colleges,
Junior Colleges, Pharmacy Colleges, Engineering Colleges, and one can
vouchsafe that Vignan is synonymous with quality higher education in Andhra
Pradesh.
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| One of the numerous architectural beauties of Vignan |
The benchmark for Vignan is only
Vignan and there is no rival for them in many ways!
The man is Lavu Rathaiah Garu, and
even today you can find him clad in his traditional white, and doing the rounds
as a simple, down-to-earth-person in and around campus.
The first thing that strikes you as
you enter this high-profile-techno-campus In Guntur, Vijayawada, Andhra
Pradesh, is the hundreds of students who literally fill up all the play fields
in Vignan University. Almost every other student is seen playing either Volley
ball or basket ball or football, and yes cricket too (at times)!
When I was there in Campus on an
invite from the Training & Placement Division of the University for the past two days, I was
witness to an ‘Indo-African football match’ in progress, and players from
abroad busy doing their nets.
Unrivalled in infrastructure and
unparalleled in commitment!
Yes, there’s no exaggeration when I say
this!
Vignan is known for her palatial
Library, which houses a phenomenal collection of Journals and Periodicals, and
yes, it’s fully air-conditioned. Library apart, the three language labs (with
one lab exclusively devoted to Soft skills – called the Soft Skills Lab) are a
cynosure to the ardent and enthusiastic learner.
‘100 hours of intensive training in
Language proficiency!’ is part of their commitment to the freshers of the
institution. With this in mind, they get external trainers also to give
hands-on training for their students.
Quality consciousness is part of their
benchmarks to which there is no parallel, at least in this part of Andhra
Pradesh. Almost all their initiatives are centred on the students, to enhance
their skills, and to bring out the best from them, and at last make sure they
are placed in very good and secure positions in their career! With this in mind, almost every other twist
and turn in the huge campus has a banner that says something about student achievers
in curricular and extra-curricular activities, and motivating quotes of all
hues and colours adorn every ten feet of campus roads.
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| Players on all sides... |
Vignan makes sure that their students
not only get a good and comfortable education, but are also placed in well-established
Corporate Sectors. With this in mind, the training and placement division has
seen huge investments to giving the best for their students.
The salary offered for the staff is literally
phenomenal too!
One thing I like about the Institution
is that, they offer culture-specific, and region-specific courses that cater to
the local demands. A few courses like Textile Engineering and Agriculture
Engineering are a few among them, which cater to the huge demand for these courses
in the local job market.
Students are given utmost freedom, and
a casual walk at 11.30 pm last night, threw me a surprise. There were boys
playing basket ball in the well-lit Courts at this time of the night. This
speaks to the enormous freedom given to the students as far as sports is
concerned.
For lack of time, I sum it up for the
moment!
Indeed, the meteoric rise of this legend,
from a humble beginning to such an illustrious position, reminds us of a
wonderful quote:
If you want to achieve some really big
and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work. Hard
work makes the difference. It’s what separates the children from the mature
adults. You can keep living as a child and desperately hoping that life will
always be easy, but then you’ll be stuck in a child-like world, working on
other people’s goals instead of your own, waiting for opportunities to come to
you instead of creating your own, and doing work that in the grand scheme of
this world just isn’t important. So STOP doubting yourself, work hard and make it BIG!
Even so be it!
So dear students, what are you waiting
for?
Go forth! ‘Strive, Seek, Find and
NEVER yield’ (to mediocrity) at any cost!!!
God bless you.
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