Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday visit Mumbai to address the 56th annual convocation of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the new building of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar, Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao and state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will also be present on the occasion.
The prime minister also said that a large number of IIT students built the information technology system in India “click-by-click”, and now, the country has become the destination for IT development. India is emerging as a hub for startups, he said, while reminding the students that the “biggest corporations of today were the startups of yesterday
Innovation and new technology will decide future direction of development, in which IITs will play an important role, he said, adding that IIT-Bombay is one of the institutions working for new technologies for a ‘New India’.
“We must make India the most attractive destination for innovation and enterprise,” the prime minister said and added that this cannot happen through government efforts alone. “The best ideas do not come in government buildings or fancy offices. They come in campuses like yours, from youngsters like you,” Modi said.