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Dear Dharumi:
(G)Old students are like gold. They are the assets for any educational institution. In the western world one of the main sources of revenue for academic institutions is from old students. Many old students bequeath a share of their property to their Alma mater. For some in India it will be hard to believe this because it doesn't happen like that in this country. People say it is because the old students don't think of their schools and colleges the moment they leave the institution. I would say actually it is the other way about.
How often do we as an institution think of and recognize the achievements of our alumni? This morning news paper carries the news of one of our old students Mr. Senthamarai Kannan promoted as an Inspector General of Police (IGP). There should be some mechanism built in our college to keep track of such news and send official greetings and congratulations to such persons. This may not be the first of such elevation of that kind. We have already have Mr. Shyam Sundar (now in the DGP rank), Mr. Jaffar Sait and many others. We might have missed greeting them at the right time. Let us now create a cell (at least a voluntary cell to begin with) to keep track of such events and build a good relationship with our alumni. Many of our problems will disappear. "It is in gving we receive".
Cannot IPAC serve as the voluntary cell I have mentioned above? Let us invite the readers of IPAC to share such news with other through our blog to begin with. Let IPAC start working on building strong alumni to fight injustices. Present students and faculty alone will not be sufficient.
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