the threeday reunion of batch of 1984 of iitkanpur was officially inaugurated on saturday even though celebrations began on friday former students have arrived from across the world to attend the reunion these former students not only interacted with each other but also with the current crop of students they also clicked pictures of their alma materthe office staff of alumni association of the institute which had organised the alumni meet along with the iitk officials turned out to be perfect hosts for these iitians the former students while interacting with newspersons stressed on the need of iitians taking to entrepreneurship instead of jobs they said that students should become job givers instead of job seekersajay jain an iitk alumnus and a resident of lucknow said that he took up entrepreneurship after passing out from iitkanpur and set up a factory manufacturing medical equipments these equipments are exported to different countries he added that the students should come forward to take up business instead of jobskaushal chari who had come from us said that focus should be on research and more and more patents should be filed as in the us he expressed concern over the fact that none of indian universities or institutes figured in the list of 500 top institutions hence the focus should be on promoting research he added meanwhile fun and frolic continued on the campus former students were also nostalgic about their return to the campus