Make use of Home Grown Institutions: Dr MSS.
Dr.M.S.Swaminathan, Chairman M S S R foundation, Chennai was speaking in a function to unveil a bust of Srinivasa Ramanujam in the campus of IIT, Chennai. He said that our Country did not need foreign Universities to develop students as we have amidst us some of world class institutions. He brought in the thought expressed by The Noble Laureate Venkataraman Ramakrishnan recently that only home grown institutions could reflect the culture of the country and they should be encouraged more.
Ramji Raghavan,
chairman, Agastya International Foundation, who donated the bust to the
institute, said two other busts had been donated to
The Foundation also held
a demonstration of the models used to teach students in various schools using
its mobile van. Mr. Raghavan announced that students who developed low-cost
models to demonstrate scientific concepts to schoolchildren would be given an
award of Rs.1 lakh by a US-based foundation. About Agastya Foundation: Agastya was established as a Public Charitable Trust in 1999. It is the
brainchild of a group of individuals, led by Ramji Raghavan, a former NRI. Ramji came back to Spreading
sacred knowledge to south India, authoring Tamil grammar and creating the Agastya
networked with eminent scientists, developing a new method of education that
would make learning scientific concepts fun, useful and accessible. Investors
like Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Alok Oberoi and Desh Deshpande have helped Agastya by
funding its programs and helping craft its strategies. Web site: www.agastya.org. . Contact: agastyaadmin@gmail.com
