Students must take
Innovative Steps and be Entrepreneurs: IITG Dean

9th Mile, Baridua, Ri Bhoi, September 1, 2018: An
innovative mind is must for young students while
pursuing competitive and higher studies. Students should
never be hesitant to take innovative steps and become
entrepreneurs to take forward the nation towards
progress. This was stated by Dr Saurabh Basu, Professor
of Physics & Dean Education Outreach Program, IIT,
Guwahati while addressing as the chief guest in the new
engineering students’ get together programme at the
Regional Institute of Science and Technology here
yesterday.
Addressing the students, Prof Basuexplained how to crack
different competitive entranceexams like JEE, JAM, GATE
that leads to study in IIT. He advised the students to
go through previous five years’ entrance question papers
so that they can get the concepts which will help the
students to crack the exams. He also advised students to
go through various books as well as online learning
portals. “With hardwork and dedication only one can
achieve success”, he added.
Among the different events held, a special attraction of
the programme was the contests of Mr and Ms Freshers
2018, which was judged by popular figures like RJ Mandy,
Udayan Deworah and Achyut Kalita. Special award for
highest attendance of student for academic session
August 2017 to July-2018 was also given.
Earlier, Dr PC Mahanta, Director, RIST welcomed all the
participants and guests. The programme was also
addressed by Dr. P.K Goswami, Vice Chancellor,
University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya while
the vote of thanks was delivered by Dr PK Pathak. Head
of the Department of Civil, RIST. |