Katra:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a convocation at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Jammu and Kashmir's Katra. Below are the highlights:
- Question of what next will play on your minds. But the person who knows what lies ahead wouldn't need to depend on others
- Recall what your parents did for you. They sacrificed their own happiness for yours
- You may have thought of so much in your childhood but it may not have worked out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved
- Real challenges of life will start now, defeat should be a lesson, not a burden
- People will try to misguide you but you must listen to your heart
- This university is built through the contribution of so many pilgrims, many of whom came from far away places
- Let's pledge that we will do something for poor, because it was a poor pilgrim who contributed to build this university
- You will remember every moment of your time here
- Our nation is scaling new heights of progress and with such a youthful population we can achieve so much
- It may cost around Rs 10 per kilometre to travel by an auto in Katra, but travel cost of India's Mars mission was less than Rs 7 per kilometre
- Dream to do something and not to become someone
- People like gymnast Dipa Karmakar give strength to us
- The biggest wealth of the 21st century is knowledge
- The role of mothers who send their daughters to study is commendable