Mohan Bhagwat to honor Gavaskar, Kasturirangam at Sri Sathya Sai Varsity

Bengaluru: RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat on July 13 will deliver the first convocation address of the Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence and provide honorary doctorates to cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar and other eminent personalities, including former ISRO Chief K Kasturirangam.
The university is distinguished for providing education free of cost to rural first-generation learners from economically downtrodden backgrounds.
Bhagwat will also provide honorary doctorates to nuclear physicist R Chidambaram, who played a key role in India’s peaceful nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998; former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan.
“It would be an honour for us to host Dr Mohan ji Bhagwat on July 13 for the first convocation at our campus. At the ceremony, he will award honorary doctorates to six eminent Indian citizens, who have played important roles in the fields of science, space, nuclear technology, music, sports and social development”, the Founder of the varsity, Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai, said in a statement.
RSS leader will visit the Veda Gurukulam, a school on the campus that provides Vedic education, the statement by Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai added.
Bhagwat will also visit the free super specialty hospital run by the Prashanthi Balamandira Trust which is now geared up to grow into India’s first free medical college under the University.
Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence is the higher education wing of the Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Gurukulam Group of Institutions that is spread across 27 Campuses in 20 districts in Karnataka, one in Telangana and one in Tamil Nadu. The main aim of the Institution is to impart high quality, values-based education, on the foundation of the ancient Indian ideals. (UNI)