President Murmu Attends 75th MS University Convocation, Vadodara

President Droupadi Murmu was present at the 75th annual convocation of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda at Vadodara in Gujarat on 23 September 2026. Her address to the graduating students turned on a single idea, that education counts for something only when the country and society gain from it.

The case for many disciplines at once

The President said the university has spent 75 years bringing different streams of knowledge together, and that this is the direction higher education must keep moving in. No serious problem today, she argued, can be solved from inside one subject alone. Her list of what a society needs was deliberately wide. A scientist brings curiosity to a problem; an artist brings sensitivity; a historian supplies perspective; an economist adds insight; and a sociologist contributes consciousness of how people live together. Institutions like Maharaja Sayajirao University, she said, are expected to stay alert and dynamic on that count.

Advice to the graduating students

• Engineers should build technology that makes people's lives better.
• Doctors should treat medicine as service and not merely as a profession.
• Scientists should look for answers that serve humanity.
• Artists and writers should deepen the sensitivity of society.
• Entrepreneurs should create employment and opportunity, not wealth alone.
• Teachers should raise a generation that carries both heritage and progress.
• Those entering public life should treat a post as a responsibility, not as power.

The 2047 goal

The President placed all of this inside the national goal of building a Viksit Bharat by 2047. The country she described is one where quality education and healthcare reach every person, where science and technology are used for human welfare, where opportunity is equal, where the full potential of women and youth is used, and where every citizen can live with dignity. Universities and young people, she said, have an important part in reaching those goals.

Why the university matters

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is one of Gujarat's best known universities and carries the name of the ruler of the former princely state of Baroda. For an exam, the pairing to remember is straightforward: the 75th convocation, the city of Vadodara and the President of India as chief guest.