Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin presented the diploma to a student at the 33rd graduation ceremony of Bharathidasan Institute of Management in Chennai on Monday. Ravi Appaswamy, Chairman, BIM Board, Tiruchirappalli, is also seen. | Photo credit: RAGU R
CHENNAI, TAMILNADU, 27/10/2025: MK Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Ravi Appaswamy, Chairman, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli at the 33rd BIM graduation in Chennai on Monday. Photo. Ragu R / The Hindu | Photo credit: RAGU R
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday urged the students of Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM) to uphold values like honesty, trust and responsibility in their career path.
“Dream big, work hard, be kind and simple,” said Mr. Stalin while addressing the outgoing students, parents and teachers at the 33rd graduation of BIM at the Music Academy, Chennai. “The legacy of Bharathidasan Institute of Management is a reflection of virtues like knowledge, humanity, innovation and social cause. You should carry this legacy forward as graduates of this institution,” he added.
Highlighting Tamil Nadu’s performance in higher education as demonstrated by the enrollment ratio and NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework), Mr. Stalin said it was the Dravidian movement that provided education to oppressed communities. Former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was credited with laying the foundations by introducing several development programmes, subsidizing tuition fees and establishing new universities and more than a hundred colleges.
The current “Dravidian model” government, he said, continued to provide incentives to education through schemes such as the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme, a ₹1,000 scholarship to college students under the Tamil Pudhalvan and Puthumai Penn schemes, the Naan Muthalvan scheme, the Chief Minister’s Research Grant and the Model Schools Scheme.
The Chief Minister distributed medals and degrees to 161 of the 197 graduating students at the function.
Ravi Appasamy, chairman of the BIM board, said the institution, which was the government’s academic partner for the Chief Minister’s Fellowship programme, sought the government’s help in upgrading BIM to a research center and expanding its capacity.
P. Shankar, Secretary, Higher Education, B. Bala Baskar, Member, Board of Trustees, BIM and S. Jaya Krishna, Controller of Examinations, BIM participated.
Published – 27 Oct 2025 19:54 IST
