Welcome Address by Prof. (Dr.) Sarfaraz
Ahmed Khan
A very warm good
morning to everyone! We are honoured to have eminent personalities on the dice
today with us. We welcome our Chief Guest, Hon'ble Justice G. R. Swaminathan, Judge,
Madurai Bench of Madras High Court. We are grateful to you sir for accepting
our invitation and decided to devote your time for giving your valuable advice
to our new students. We welcome you, at
SLSH.
We welcome our
Guest of Honour, Mr. Abhishek Tripathy, IRS, Government of India! We are privileged to
not only having him here but also for a workshop for our students post lunch.
We extend our warn welcome to you, at SLSH.
We have our Special Guest Ms.
Debolina Saha, Senior Associate Key member of Doresey and
Whitney’s, Hong Kong. It is our immense pleasure to have your presence, amongst
us today! We welcome you, at SLSH.
We have Prof.(Dr)
Vijender Kumar, VC-NLU, Nagpur, who took time from his busy schedule to grace
this function. We are grateful to you sir for agreeing to come here and advise
our students for their new journey. We welcome you, to SLSH.
I also welcome our Deputy
Director Dr. Anuratha Binnuri, students, teaching and non-teaching faculty members,
for the Valedictory function of the 2019-Induction program.
The 5-day induction program for the batch of 2019-24 began as a huge number of parents, teaching and non-teaching staff gathered here on Monday. A short film on the idea of Symbiosis was screened. The film highlighted how
Prof. Dr.
S.B. Mujumdar conceived the idea of establishing an international university
after seeing the plight of international students in India.
In the
inauguration session, the students had the opportunity to hear from three
eminent stalwarts Hon'ble Justice B Sudarshan Reddy, Former
Judge, Supreme Court of India, Vice Chancellor of National Law School of India
University, Bangalore, Prof. Dr. R. Venkata Rao, and Retd. IPS officer, Dr.
P.M. Nair. They congratulated students, shared their inspiring life stories and
advised for their future pursuit. Their experiences and insights from their
works have enlightened all of us with the importance of legal education and
learning values in order to attain social justice.
Post lunch,
while the students took part in the ice-breaking session, the parents attended
a workshop in the convention hall. The new batch mingled with each other during
the ice-breaking session and got to know their classmates. Symbiosis Centre for
Emotional Wellbeing (SCEW) provided the workshop for the parents on
"Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Children in Today's
World". This is an initiative of Symbiosis International University that
caters to the emotional well-being of students and staff. A team of qualified
and experienced psychologists interacted with the parents on how they can play
a very supportive role in developing the emotional resilience of their
children.
In the
evening, the mentor-mentee program was conducted. All the teachers have to be
available to their students to sort out any problems, be it academic or otherwise.
The purpose of this program is to make the students understand that our faculty
members are approachable and helpful for them. Each faculty members became mentors
for 18 students. Similarly, we also assigned one senior batch students among
the toppers as a mentor for every six freshers. The program was a grand success
with each faculty members interacting with a group of their mentees in a very
amicable way. We want to assure that the new students feel welcomed and knew
whom to go to if they have any problems on the campus.
In the next
couple of days, presentations on various cells and centers' activities were
given. We had a total of 31 presentations from all centers such as Moot Court
Association, Training and Placement Cell, International Cell, Center for Legal
Aid, and so on. Students and their faculty in-charge briefed the freshers on
their aim, objectives, activities, and their forthcoming programs. This session
let the students understand the diversity of academic activities carried out on
the campus. Now, it is their time to decide which center they want to get
associated with.
We also had a session on Symbicare focussing
on health, sports activities, and general well-being of the students in the
residential campus. A detailed session on examination rules and academic
progression were conducted by Dr. Srinivas Bandameedi. We had members from the
IT and Library department demonstrating students on how to use Internet
facilities and access online resources.
We were delighted
to have our student alumni, Namrata Chakraborthy and Nalamalpu Pavan Krishna
Reddy, sharing their experience studying at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad, for
five years and getting placed in their current organizations.
Stepping into
the important phase of their lives, students need to understand the gender
differences and that SLS-H places great importance on its zero-tolerance policy
about sexual harassment. Therefore, we organized 'Gender Sensitization Program'
with the best available resource persons, Prof. (Dr).Rekha Pande, Director, Centre
for Women Studies, University of Hyderabad and Dr. Swetha Luthra, Legal
Consultant at Support Against Sexual Harassment (SASHA), a well known NGO
working on the issues relating to sexual harassment at workplace. It was a very
lively and interactive session.
We made sure that every day
of the first four days ended with sports and cultural events where students can
get to know each other of their talents. The fifth day was full of fun as
all students with faculty members went for an outing in an amusement park
(Wonderla).
We tried to ensure that the
week-long induction program for
the batch of 2019-24 had a mixture of serious academic activities to most jovial cultural
programs. We hope these
days were very informational, eventful and unforgettable.
Dear students, the next five years
requires your focus on balancing studies and healthy life. From Monday next
week, all your classes will begin and it would be the time to get serious, work
hard, and excel in your academics while maintaining discipline throughout. If
you can achieve this, believe me, many of you can, rather shall, become Judges,
solicitor general, advocate general, renowned lawyers, erudite academicians,
entrepreneur, or excel at any career of your choice. With a note of caution, if
you do not do this, success will remain a distant dream.
Dear students, the only ‘mantra’ that
can lead you to your goal is your tenacity to do the ‘hard work’. So, work
hard, work hard and work hard!
Thank you! All the Best!
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