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AHMEDABAD: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday said that design is often a less noticed but crucial factor in the social and economic development of our country. She was speaking at the 44th convocation of the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad.
“There are many problems all around us, and many of them require design tweaks and not great resources. Creative thinking can lead to solutions that can improve the ease of living, especially for underprivileged communities,” the President said. She added that she was happy to note that NID excelled in the concept of design with an emphasis on ‘design as a service for the betterment of society.’
A total of 430 students received their degrees, including five PhD scholars, 323 students of MDes and 102 students of BDes courses. Governor Acharya Devvrat, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal and Union MoS commerce and industry Jitin Prasada were part of the ceremony.
The President emphasised design for bridging tradition and modernity and also as a cultural practice that “holds the key to some of the challenges that confront the world in the 21st century”.
Goyal, in his speech, emphasised that design is not something new for India, which has seen intricately carved temples for centuries. In the present era, too, India’s design prowess is on display in sectors ranging from space to semiconductors, he added.
Governor Acharya Devvrat said that the administrators and students of this institute have been congratulated for the fate that the institute has established in the field of design in India for the last fifty years.
Devvrat said that India is not a new country. When the people of Europe wore vulcanised clothes, the people here developed the art of closing the Dhaka of India in a matchbox. India’s cottage industry is famous worldwide.
Acharya Devvrat said that the three most valuable things in life are Vidya, wealth, and physical force. If good people have all three, they use them to serve society, but if they go to the people with this misconduct, they are abused.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel encouraged NID’s young designers to contribute to the creation of a developed India, saying that India is to provide smart and skilled manpower solutions to the world. We all have to make India the largest power center of manpower in the world. The process of learning and moving should continue to continue, he added.
The Chief Minister further said that in today’s era, the designing field can play an important role with Innovative Ideas in the face of widespread challenges from Climate Change to waste management. The world is welcoming Zero-Defect, Zero-Effect designs.
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