By TCN News,
New Delhi: Jamia Milla Islamia celebrated its 90th Foundation Day today. The program began with Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung receiving the Guard of Honour by NCC Cadets of Jamia followed by Flag Hoisting by Chief Guest Harsh Mandar. The celebrations will end tonight on a musical note with Sufiyana Qawwali.
As per tradition, the Foundation Day Programme is put up by Jamia Schools. This time too school children won the hearts of everybody by putting up the Jamia song, Jamia Tarana, recalling Jamia’s glorious history as also Jamia’s current achievements. Especially noteworthy was the performance put up by tiny tots, who got the loudest applause from the audience.
On the occasion, Harsh Mandar, reminded those present of the enormous disparities which exist in society and the role that education institutions such as Jamia have played and continue to play today in addressing them. Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung also reminded the house of the enormous sacrifices on which the university has been built and he welcomed everyone to come forward to help build the institution to take it further.
As part of the celebrations, the University decided to host a ‘Foundation Day Lecture’ on “Vision of Indian Youth in 21st Century” by Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry at 4.30 PM in Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium.
The Foundation Day celebrations would end on a musical note with “Sufiyana Qawwali” on Hazrat Mir Khusrau and Hazrat Maulana Jami by Nizami Brotherswhich will begin at 8.00 PM and will be held in Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium. Salman Khurshid, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs will be the Chief Guest
Jamia Millia Islamia, an institution originally established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920 became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988. The story of its growth from a small institution in the pre-independence India to a central university located in New Delhi—offering integrated education from nursery to research in specialized areas—is a saga of dedication, conviction and vision of a people who worked against all odds and saw it growing step by step. They “built up the Jamia Millia stone by stone and sacrifice by sacrifice,” said Sarojini Naidu, the nightingale of India.