The National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT-C) celebrated its foundation day on the campus on Thursday, marking the anniversary of its establishment as Regional Engineering College (REC) Calicut on September 1, 1961.
On the occasion, Prof. S. Unnikrishna Pillai, former principal of REC Calicut, and former directors of NIT-C Prof. S.S. Gokhale, Prof. G.R.C. Reddy, and Prof, Sivaji Chakravorti were honoured and presented with mementos.
Delivering the foundation day lecture, Prof. B. Jagadeeshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, pointed out that the vision of the National Education Policy 2020 would be achieved by strategising the process of identifying inadequacies, knowledge gaps, and gender inequalities and augmenting the teaching-learning process and mode of delivering contents with appropriate training programmes.
