Lucknow :
A play by Nadira Babbar on the life of thumri queen Begum Akhtar and career counselling sessions besides felicitation of ten prominent alumni of the Lucknow University will be the highlights of LU foundation day celebrations this year scheduled on November 25.
The celebrations are being organised jointly by the Alumnae Society and the University of Lucknow. Governor TV Rajeswar and chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would attend the function. Justice AS Anand, chairperson, National Human Rights Commission and former Chief Justice of India, would be the guest of honour. Justice Anand is a law graduate of LU.
Giving this information at a press conference on Saturday, LU Alumnae Society president Ram Kumar Bhargava said, “other illustrious alumni to be felicitated are Harish Chandra Gupta, additional defence secretary, (MSc from LU); Kamal Kumar, director, national police academy (MSc from LU); Nadira Babbar, director, Bhartendu Natya Academy (BA from LU); Dr SS Agarwal, former director, SGPGI (KGMC graduate); Gogi Saroj Pal, artist (she did her BFA from LU); Lagan fame writer KP Saxsena (MSc from LU); veteran journalist Seema Mustafa (MA English from LU); Rajendra Prasad, vice-president, American Express-India and subcontinent (a commerce graduate of LU) and Nighat Khan Lodhi, former national football player.
Nadira Babbar will stage the play on November 24 in the evening. Naresh Agarwal, state transport minister will be the chief guest. The main function to felicitate the alumni will be held during the day, a session on career counselling will be held on November 25 evening, which will be addressed by Rajendra Prasad, vice-president, American Express, VV Singh, CEO Reliance Infocom, Parveen Talha, member, Union Public Service Commission and Jayant Krishna, centre head, Tata Consultancy Services. Efforts are also on to invite KK Srivastava and Amrita Das for the counselling sessions as well, Bhargava said.
The Alumnae Society has also proposed to build an alumni house on the university campus for the purpose of coordinating the activities of the society. Vice-chancellor have accepted the proposal and has allotted the land of men’s hostel of academic staff college for the purpose. Chief minister will lay the foundation of the alumni house. Bhargava said that registration for membership of Alumnae Society are open and those who want can contact office-bearers for detail. Others who addressed the press conference included vice-chancellor, Prof SB Singh, pro vice-chancellor Prof MP Singh and AK Srivastava, Alumnae Society general secretary.
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