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Monday, 7th January 2013
Welcome.
Welcome to the campus of VPM’s Maharshi Parshuram College of Engineering. I am sure you have enjoyed your stay at home. Telling them stories of your stay at college hostel, about new friends, about food at mess and most important, about your new college and teachers.
Today your second semester of this academic year will start. You have arrived with fresh vigor, enthusiasm and energy. Visit your library for books, databases and journals. All teachers are eagerly waiting to interact with you. This semester you will have some more cultural activities.
Enjoy your learning and stay in the campus.
Dr. Vijay Bedekar
Chairman, Vidya Prasarak mandal, Thane.
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Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane (VPM) is a pioneering
educational trust, which enthusiastically and zealously caters
to the basic and advanced needs of education of nearly 15,000
students through its Marathi and English Medium Schools, Arts,
Commerce, Science and Law Colleges, Polytechnic, Institute
of Management Studies and Advanced Study Centre all located
in Thane city.
I am proud to say that VPM has taken a right step to fulfill
the national dream of providing a high quality engineering
education in rural environment of the Maharashtra State. It
is said that "whoever can make two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before will deserve better of mankind
than any speculative philosopher or metaphysical system builder".
The Velneshwar project, then (2008) a distant but desirable
dream, has now fructified into a reality, with several blades
of grass on the campus, in as much as the Maharshi Parshuram
College of Engineering (MPCOE) has received permission from
the AICTE to conduct the Bachelor's Degree of Engineering,
of the University of Mumbai, in five branches viz. Mechanical,
Electrical, Electronics &Telecommunication, Computer and
Instrumentation Engineering with effect from the academic
year 2012-13. Thus, VPM's expanse into the rural hinterland
of Maharashtra through the launch of an Engineering college
now and other centres of excellence in the future in different
disciplines, and its extensions into the global network, will
always underscore into its mooring in local soils and enrich
Indian heritage, values, beliefs, practices and its immeasurable
treasure of Indian wisdom. I take this opportunity to say
that every dimension and all activities of VPM, shall endeavour,
at all times, to align, forge and merge itself, with the ethos
of the nation to sub-serve the cause of the onward march of
human progress through its network of institutions and their
diverse range of activities.
The MPCOE which is set in a sprawling campus of 37 acres
of land houses educational buildings, students' hostel, staff
quarters, canteen, auditorium, healthcare center, gymnasium,
badminton court, bank with ATM center et al. The entire campus,
as well as residential area, is connected through WiFi having
24 hours leased line Internet / intranet connectivity.
It therefore gives me a great pleasure to extend a very warm
welcome to prospective students and teachers of this new institution.
Your future livelihood and personal goals are greatly influenced
by the choices you make today. We are committed to excellence
in the field of education and our track record, of the last
eight decades, bears testimony to the same. It is VPM's vision
to make MPCOE a 'leading dynamic and responsive centre of
excellence in technology, engineering and management in the
world.' I recommend this vision as a credo and hope that this
will be attained and always well sustained.
The future is always given shape by the faith we have in
ourselves in what we do, believe and practice. In fact as
a renowned American social philosopher - Lewis Mumford - observes:
"Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence,
in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements
and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth."
I would therefore urge all stakeholders, existing and potential,
to take a look around our campus and see the world class facilities
that have been provided to students and teachers in pursuing
and contributing to the cause of Engineering education. Education
at MPCOE is committed to attain, maintain and continuously
improve the quality of faculty, programs and the youth graduating
from the portals of this alma mater. We are firmly focused
on realising our vision and dreams and achieving our goals
and make MPCOE a national, nay international, centre of excellence
and a choicest destination for engineering education in the
country. I am looking forward to meet the young entrants into
MPCOE and offering them the best of the facilities, environment
and resources so that they will be the pioneers and great
achievers in their respective endeavors and bring pride and
glory not only to their alma mater but also to society at
large.
The teachers / students are the backbone of any educational
institution including MPCOE. I am sure that the teaching fraternity
and students of MPCOE will rise to the occasion and shoulder
the responsibility cast on them with ease and enable the realisation
of dreams of a great future for all stakeholders of MPCOE.
For VPM (Thane) the past was great no doubt, the future will
be glorious still and MPCOE, alongwith its other sister institutions
in Thane, would have played their respective roles. I commend
the above thoughts to one and all and solicit their co-operation
in the humble mission that VPM (Thane) has ventured.
Dr. Vijay V. Bedekar
Chairman
Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane.
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