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Home / News / Mumbai News / #ManoharParrikar: IIT-B to remember its distinguished alumnus at condolence meet
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    #ManoharParrikar: IIT-B to remember its distinguished alumnus at condolence meet

    Aakanksha Raghuvanshi
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    Last updated on Mar 18, 2019, 03:31 pm
    #ManoharParrikar: IIT-B to remember its distinguished alumnus at condolence meet
  • The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) will hold a condolence meet this evening to pay tributes to their alumnus, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who died after battling pancreatic ailment for a year.

    The meeting will be held at 5 pm at the institute's P C Saxena auditorium, an IIT-B spokesperson said.

    Parrikar, 63, died yesterday evening at his private residence in Goa.

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    Parrikar asked IIT-B graduates to join politics and Army He was the institute's distinguished alumnus, says IIT-B Parrikar graduated in metallurgical engineering from the institute in 1978
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    Parrikar asked IIT-B graduates to join politics and Army

    Parrikar asked IIT-B graduates to join politics and Army
  • In 2017, Parrikar, who had also been the defense minister, addressed the 55th convocation of the Mumbai-based institute where he told the graduates to take up jobs in social and development sectors.

    An alumnus of the famed institute, he also asked students to join politics and the Army, said a former IIT-B student who was present at the convocation ceremony.

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    He was the institute's distinguished alumnus, says IIT-B

    He was the institute's distinguished alumnus, says IIT-B
  • "Why can't IIT graduates, who have had the best engineering education in the country, take up academics and run some of these colleges, and transform their quality?" Parrikar had then said.

    The institute in its condolence message said Parrikar's demise came as a shock to them.

    "He was the institute's distinguished alumnus and keenly involved with many initiatives at IIT Bombay," it said.

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    Parrikar graduated in metallurgical engineering from the institute in 1978

  • The institute said that Parrikar was also involved with the launch of IIT Goa. On the Alumni Day in 2014, IIT-B felicitated Parrikar, who graduated in metallurgical engineering from the institute in 1978, in recognition of his contribution to the development of the country.

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