industry and arts have been appointed to St Stephen's College alumni
executive to help it ramp up its infrastructure and meet its target of
becoming a world-class institution by 2050.
At a well-attended meeting convened in the college late on Sunday, Ved
Marwah, former governor of Manipur and Jharkhand, was re-nominated
president of the body by patron and principal Rev. Valson Thampu.
Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi will be the vice president.
"The alumni reviewed the ground-level improvements under way in the
college library, science blocks, junior, ladies and senior combination
rooms, internet resource centre and science dhaba. We decided to
register the alumni association in an appropriate manner," Marwah told
the sources.
Marwah said the new executive's main mission was to galvanize the
alumni to first understand the developmental efforts now on and then
to implement the master plan based on Vision 2050 approved by the
governing body.
As part of its master plan, St. Stephens aspires to achieve a deemed
university status by 2025 or at least by 2050, increase intake in key
streams, upgrade infrastructure and offer a wide array of courses.
"We will reach out to alumni across the world to share the master plan
and Vision 2050 encompassing hard and soft infrastructure that the
college must have to maintain and consolidate its unmatched and
growing relevance to national life," said Quraishi.
Some of the other members of the alumni body are Perfect Relations
co-founder Bobby Kewalramani (Secretary), senior civil servant Vijay
Chhibber (Treasurer) and Hammurabi and Solomon Consulting LLP Chief
Executive Officer Rohit Bansal (media advisor).
The revamped national executive to guide alumni affairs also includes
Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin, Delhi High Court judge Sanjay Kishen
Kaul, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar, Pioneer editor Chandan
Mitra, Naukri.com founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani and Amitabh Kant, chief
executive of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Corp.
Thampu, only the third alumni to be principal of the college,
emphasized the supreme significance of the role of alumni and their
participation in the life of the college.
Nineteen MPs in today's parliament are from the college, including
ministers Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid, Virbhadra Singh and Sachin
Pilot.
Others from the college include Planning Commission deputy chairman
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, incoming cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth,
Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu, authors Khushwant Singh and
Amitabh Ghosh, industrialist Rahul Bajaj and Delhi University Vice
Chancellor Dinesh Singh. IANS
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