Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Saturday outlined 4 concepts on how India can supply a significant ‘Guru Dakshina’ to its educators. He was talking on the Institute of Chemical Know-how (ICT), Mumbai, throughout the launch of a biography on his mentor and former professor, MM Sharma, titled Divine Scientist.
Paying tribute to Professor MM Sharma—beneath whom he studied on the then College Division of Chemical Know-how (UDCT)—Ambani referred to him as a “Guru of Bharat” and “a quiet architect of India’s financial reforms”.
Recalling his early scholar days, Ambani shared how Professor Sharma’s first lecture left a long-lasting influence on him, shaping his outlook and ambition. He credited Sharma with influencing key policymakers in post-liberalisation India, serving to them recognise the necessity to dismantle the license-permit raj. “Like my father Dhirubhai Ambani, he had a burning need to alter Indian trade from shortage to international management,” Ambani mentioned. “These two daring visionaries believed that science and expertise, in alliance with non-public entrepreneurship, would open the floodgates of prosperity.”
Throughout his handle to college students and alumni, Ambani introduced an unconditional grant of ₹151 crore to ICT Mumbai as a part of his ‘Guru Dakshina’, appearing on the steering of Professor Sharma himself. “Indian tradition locations an obligation on each scholar to repay our debt to the Guru within the type of Guru Dakshina. So how can we as a nation pay a befitting Guru Dakshina to Prof M.M. Sharma and all of the professors that now we have?” he mentioned.
Ambani then offered 4 forward-looking concepts for honouring India’s academics:
“First: We should make India a deep-tech nation and a world chief in Superior Manufacturing utilizing AI and different breakthrough applied sciences… particularly in proteins, enzymes and different areas of chemistry that may remedy advanced illnesses, delay human life, and create new supplies, clear up the atmosphere, and increase productiveness exponentially,” he mentioned.
“My Second Concept: After the Nineties, the non-public sector unlocked the potential of India’s financial development. Now, it must also unlock the potential of India’s instructional improvement… In the present day, when many globally reputed universities are going through a disaster, India has the perfect alternative to draw again probably the most gifted college students and colleges from around the globe.”
“My Third Concept: Schooling just isn’t solely about creating materials and monetary worth… training is much more about inculcating human values… Character is that intangible wealth that comes with integrity, honesty, humility, empathy and different values rooted in India’s priceless tradition.”
“My Fourth Concept: Prof Sharma belongs to that uncommon neighborhood of academics for whom educating itself is their dharma… The phrase that greatest captures Prof Sharma’s character is that he’s an INFLUENCER… We’d like tens of 1000’s of Gurus like him, who can educate our youth to mix Success with Sanskaar,” he mentioned.
Ambani spent over three hours on the ICT campus, participating with school, college students, and fellow alumni, in what was each a private homage and a nationwide name to motion for investing in information, character, and technological management.
The ceremony happened at Pidilite Corridor, hosted by esteemed nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar. Distinguished scientists resembling Raghunath Mashelkar, J B Joshi, Aniruddha Pandit, and G D Yadav honored Prof Sharma’s contributions to training and science. “Divine Scientist” has been penned in Marathi by Anita Patil and translated into English by Sonia Khare.
