Jaipur. This year, the birthday celebration at Vivekananda Global University (VGU) was not limited to just greetings and formalities. Instead, it was celebrated as a commitment to giving a new direction to education and innovation. On his birthday, the university’s Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Omkar Bagadia, launched the “VGU Vision Fund” of fifty lakh rupees with the aim of putting the ideas of students and teachers on the university campus into action. According to the university management, this initiative is a concrete step towards providing resources to students and teachers in their respective departments for innovation, research, academic activities, and creative projects.
The university stated that under this fund, decision-making power will be empowered at the departmental level by giving students and teachers responsible roles in each department. According to the plan, one student representative and one teacher representative in each department will be given the authority to utilize the allocated funds within the annual limit, so that necessary academic programs, workshops, competitions, experimental activities, and other innovation-related efforts can be carried out on time at the departmental level. The university believes that this system will simplify processes and prevent unnecessary delays in the approval and implementation of good ideas.
Under the fund’s framework, provision has been made for financial assistance of up to fifty thousand rupees annually for student representatives and up to one lakh rupees annually for teacher representatives for their activities. In addition, special support will also be provided to senior innovators selected by the university leadership, enabling the university to conduct large-scale academic initiatives, innovation-based events, and effective departmental projects. The university administration says that this model will not only limit students and teachers to participation but will also give them the opportunity to play an active role in the development of the university.
The university management described this initiative as a new culture of participation and responsibility in education. Through this, the focus is on empowering students to take on creative leadership roles instead of limiting them to just learning, and on making teachers more capable of research and innovation. The university argues that when resources and trust are placed in the hands of the departments and the campus community, the form of education becomes more effective, results-oriented, and future-ready.
The announcement of the VGU Vision Fund has been viewed by the university community as an inspiring initiative, as it conveys the message that individual opportunities can be transformed into instruments of institutional progress. The university states that this initiative will accelerate the pace of ideation, experimentation, innovation, and implementation on campus and will lead students and faculty to new opportunities.
The university administration expressed confidence that this model will serve as an example for academic institutions in the future, where decisions and resources extend beyond centralized structures to reach departments and operational units, forming the basis for real transformation.
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