Ramanagar, 3 April 2023: In a simple ceremony attended by Chief Representative Officer (CRO) Jigmey Tsultrim; Ngawang Gyatso, Dean of the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education (DLIHE); and Sunil Giridhar, the Orbit Future Academy, a PG Diploma Course in Full Stack Application Development and Certificate Course in Digital Marketing and Graphic Designing was inaugurated at the Conventional Hall of Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education.
The course is being sponsored by Tibet Fund through USAID and will be covered in nine months. 19 applicants for FSAD and 38 students for graphic design and digital marketing made the program’s shortlist, which will be held at the famed DLIHE campus.
Addressing the gathering, Dean Ngawang Gyatso welcomed the participants, faculties and other guest at the occasion. He emphasised the need and importance of digitisation where every piece of information can be explored with the click of finger tips. Explaining the formation of DLIHE and its objectives, he stressed the balance education of traditional and modern streams of studies that can ensure the focal point of Tibetan identity and service to its community in return.
Representing The Orbit Future Academy, Sunil Giridhar explained the details of course and introduced the course teachers. He requested all the students to be prompt and attentive in the class while assuring his best approach to any of issues that may be unforeseen at this point of time.
The CRO of South Zone reminded the students of having an additional responsibility and urged them to utilise the resources productively while ensuring that this may not go in vain. He highlighted the aims and objectives of Tibetan people in exile and hopes of Tibetans inside Tibet while explaining the historical relation between Tibetan and Mysuru State (then) and Karnataka (now). Specifically, he implored students to put to use the investments and opportunities into a maximum benefits.
Secretary Kunga Dhoedon emceed the ceremony and thanked the participants. Before concluding, he further added more value to these learning opportunities from his own vast experience of academic achievement from IIHMR, Jaipur to DLIHE, Ramanagar.
-Report filed by CRO South Zone