July 6: Twenty-One retired city college principals were recently felicitated by the Association of Non-Government Colleges (ANGC) at Lala Lajpatrai College at Haji Ali.

Attended by the Minister of Higher and Technical Education Datta Rane and Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University Dr Snehalata Deshmukh, apart from a host of academicians, this function also saw the release of a telephone directory containing the phone numbers and addresses of all the university affiliated city colleges and their principals.

In his opening address, ANGC president Principal M G Shirahatti lauded the services rendered by these outgoing principals to society. ``Retirement, though, should not be a constraint to the principals to continue in the right earnest for the benefit of education,'' he said.

The vice-chancellor in her address said, ``The services of these principals will definitely be utilised by the university. Currently, many of them are helping us with the first year degree admissions.'' She also informed that the university has given the ANGC a separate office space with a phone facility at Kalina campus.

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