Ahemdabad: The Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Thursday addressed the “Kashmir Festival” organized by the Gujarat University in Ahemdabad. During his address, the minister hailed the “aspirational” StartUps of the new genre and said, festivals like this provide an opportunity to the youth from different regions of the country to come together and exchange their experiences as well as best practices in the emerging avenues.
He also said that this festival will hopefully provide a very valuable exposure for the youth from Jammu & Kashmir because Gujarat is a State traditionally known to be ahead of other States in terms of entrepreneurship and futuristic vision for innovative initiatives.
Expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Dr Jitendra Singh said, Jammu & Kashmir had to wait for seven long decades before a distinguished son of the soil from Gujarat in the form of Prime Minister Narendra Modi came and liberated the people of J&K from the shackles of Article 370 and gave them the sense of esteem of being the citizens of India. Similarly, he said, another son of the soil from Gujarat, Home Minister Amit Shah ensured the extension of the Central Laws to the UT of J&K so that the people of J&K could enjoy the same rights and privileges as people in other parts of the country.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, after more than three and half years of that path-breaking decision, it is evident that Jammu and Kashmir today is better placed than it was before August 5, 2019. He said, more than 800 central laws have become applicable to Jammu and Kashmir after it got the Union Territory status.
The Minister referred to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indian Institute of Sustainability (IIS), Gujarat University and University of Kashmir for establishment of IIS at University of Kashmir.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, Gujarat is at the forefront of innovation, entrepreneurship, co-operative culture and sustainability and is making all efforts for implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our university system. He said, Gujarat is the first state to have developed the Student StartUp & Innovation Policy (SSIP), and climate change department of the country. The farmers of Kashmir can learn a lot from this co-operative culture of Gujarat, it will help them to improve product and service quality. They can learn about the various business and marketing methods.
Dr Jitendra Singh thanked Vice Chancellor of Gujarat University Prof. Himanshu Pandya, Dr. Manjoor Ahmed Mir, Coordinator and Mr. Sudhanshu Jangir, Director IIS, Gujarat University for the collaborative program of both the Universities and lauded the Gujarat University for taking the initiative of setting up an institution with great possibilities of solving the grand challenges of society.
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