VADODARA: Gujarat governor
O P Kohli
will flag off city-based
Navrachana School
, Sama’s
golden jubilee celebrations
on Thursday evening at the school ground.
"Over the last 50 years the Navrachana School, Sama has produced young Indians talented in various fields of activity, the senior ones having reached the top levels in their areas of work. Settled across the world, Navrachanites can be found making their mark in the mainstream as well as niche careers,” a release issued by the school said.
"Some of them are academic scholars -
Rochana Bajpai
, teaching at SOAS, London,
Samira Sheikh
at Vanderbilt University, US, Dr Varadarajan at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr Aditya Mohite, Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, Dr Reetika Khera, IIT, New Delhi and management professionals like Samir Mitra, COO, Prism Circuits Inc., US, Amol Mitra, CEO of Hewlett Packard, US among others,” the release further mentioned.
School alumnus
Mehul Desai, a telecommunications professional is the guest of honour on this occasion and will be speaking on the pioneering work he has done in the field of secure personalised transactions, focusing on finance, retail, healthcare and government services for mobile phone users, evolving the digital wallet to a mobile wallet to a lifestyle container.
Along with technologist Sam Pitroda, he had co-founded C-SAM Inc, a global technology provider for secure transaction solutions, which was acquired by MasterCard worldwide in 2014.
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