the first convocation of guru gobind singh indraprastha university ggsipu was recently held at its kashmere gate premises in the capital the convocation was presided by the president of india a p j abdul kalam besides b l joshi lt governor delhi and chancellor ggsipu shiela dixit chief minister government of nct of delhi and k k aggarwal vicechancellor ggsipu nearly 5000 students of the university and its affiliated institutions received their graduating degrees on the occasion out of which about 80 meritorious students were felicitated with gold medalsaddressing the occasion kalam said in india 26 per cent of the population is below the poverty line and our aim should be to uplift those people our present gdp is about 6 per cent and to uplift the downtrodden members of the society we need to increase and maintain it at a minimum 10 per cent and to achieve this goal there are five important areas we need to focus on education and health agriculture and food processing information technology and communication technology infrastructure development and being selfreliant in critical technology kalam saidaddressing the graduating lot he remarked there are 540 million youth below 25 years of age in india the nation needs young leaders who can command the change for transformation of india into a developed nation embedded with knowledge society the mission of ggsipu is to build a capability of creative leadership among students which will generate many young entrepreneurs for participating into the transformation of india into a prosperous and strong countryearlier while welcoming the dignitaries aggarwal said the university has planned two stateoftheart campuses at dwarka and surajmal vihar stating that the university plans to focus on entrepreneurship with a view to enabling graduates to become job providers rather than job seekers he remarked we intend to introduce some of the more socially relevant programmes in the near future in disciplines like disaster management water harvesting bioinformatics intellectual property rights hospital administration and remote sensing and gis applications to name some