Shillong – A global prelate based in northeastern India told leaders of higher education holding a national conference to “help young people to think and reflect.”
Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati and Apostolic Administrator of Jowai in Meghalaya was the key note speaker at National Conference of IUS-DBHEI (Salesian Institutions for Higher Education – Don Bosco Higher Education India) meeting at Transformational Leadership Resource Centre at Siloam situated near Barapani Lake at Umsawkwan, Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya.
Some 30 delegates representing over 40 colleges and one university from 10 Salesian provinces in India are holding three day conference on “Networking and Enhancing Tech Skills Among Higher Education Institutions, 18-20 November.
“Can we help young people to think, to reflect with tools that will help,” said Archbishop Menamparampil exhorting the education leaders and decision makers, November 18.
The prelate reminded Don Bosco education leaders the founder’s dictum, ‘For you I study,’ explaining “for the sake of ministry to make self more acceptable and capable as possible.”
Archbishop Menamparampil reinstated the urgency of implementing the principles of Don Bosco’s educational principles of reason, religion and loving kindness even in the university institutions.
On 18 November afternoon Salesian Archbishop Menamparampil who is widely known and respected for his scholarship and commitment to social engagements and more particularly for his Peace-building initiatives received Sanskriti Emeritus Fellow Life Time Achievement Award 2016 at a national conference in Guwahati where he also presented a paper.
Sanskriti-North Eastern Institute of Cultural Research (NEICR), is Divine Word Missionary institution in Guwahati