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Indo-Australian Award for educationist
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: The Indo-Australian Award for Meritorious Service was conferred posthumously on K.C.G. Verghese, founder of the Hindustan Group of Engineering Colleges, by Australian High Commissioner John McCarthy on Tuesday.
The award, comprising a citation and memento, was received by his wife and Hindustan University chancellor Elizabeth Verghese.
Mrs. Verghese described her husband as an exemplary person and great visionary who lived ahead of his times. “I am extremely humbled and honoured to receive this award. I am also following in his footsteps to fulfil his dreams in the field of education. I am proud to say that the Hindustan College of Engineering has been granted university status,” she said.
Mrs. Verghese said her husband was responsible for delicensing the automobile industry in the country and for starting the ’Air Asiatic’ in 1990.
Giving away the award, Mr. McCarthy said some people lived ahead of their times, and Verghese was one of them. He pioneered the open sky policy in India and suggested that pilots undergo training in Australia.
Rich tributes were paid to Verghese by Anna University Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan, the former Bursar of Madras Christian College, Robert Guruswamy, and Kodaikanal Christian College chairman Sam Abraham. He said the award should have been given to Mr. Verghese 15 years ago, and he followed Mr. Verghese’s idea to develop Anna University.
Mr. Guruswamy described Mr. Verghese as an innovator in education. His emerging vision and dynamism made him a legend of his time. He used privatisation a tool for development.
Indo-Australian Association president K.V. Mathew said the award was being posthumously conferred on Verghese for his noble service in engineering education, aviation and automobile technology.
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