New Delhi: Subroto Bagchi, chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority and co-founder of Mindtree, has always been bothered about his failure to complete his degree course in Delhi University’s Law Centre. Bagchi, who enrolled in DU in 1978, had to drop out and search for a job. Decades later, with DU providing an opportunity to former students to complete their degree exams as part of the university’s centenary programme, Bagchi, now 65, can look forward to sitting for the test that will complete the dream he had in his youth.
Speaking to TOI, about his time in DU, the IT business leader said, “I was enrolled in the Law Centre, which used to be on Mandir Marg in 1978. The Indian IT industry was at its embryonic state at that time and I changed cities in quick succession in search of work. First, I went to Kolkata, then to Bengaluru and then to Silicon Valley in the US. Before I knew, six years had gone and my sixth semester was left unfinished. I was time barred from appearing in the exam. In all the decades thereafter, I couldn’t start from scratch. It was like someone put my efforts in the dungeon and threw away the keys.”
