Jio Institute commences first academic session
The Hindu
Mumbai
Jio Institute has announced the commencement of the academic session with two inaugural post graduate programmes in artificial intelligence & data science and digital media & marketing communications. The classes will begin on Thursday (July 21).
On Wednesday the founding batch of students were welcomed at an inaugural programme attended by students, their parents, Jio Institute leadership and staff, faculty, members of the Reliance family, and leaders from industry and academia, Reliance Industries said in a statement.
Jio Institute is a multi-disciplinary higher education institute set up as a philanthropic initiative by Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Foundation.
“As the first batch of Jio Institute you will take the first ever step, into an extraordinary future that we hope to build together. Jio Institute was born of a dream I shared with my husband Mukesh to redefine higher education in India and carry forward the legacy of our founder and my father-in-law Shri Dhirubhai Ambani,” said Nita Ambani, chairperson Reliance Foundation.
“Mukesh is a true patriot. And it is vision to build an institute that will empower young Indians and young people from across the globe to develop solutions for a sustainable and better future for mankind,” she said.
The first cohort of Jio Institute’s Post Graduate Programmes, has a mix of geographic and gender diversity.
“The cohort hails from 19 Indian states and 4 countries outside India – South Africa, Bhutan, Nepal and Ghana. The batch comprises students from academically diverse disciplines like Engineering, Science, Arts, Commerce, Mass Media, and Management Studies/Business Administration,” the statement added.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.