Fight corruption, IIM-Lucknow graduating students told

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Lucknow, March 22 : Fight corruption, have faith in honesty and make every effort to improve the society: This was the advice of J.J. Irani, chairman of board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management- Lucknow (IIM-L), for the 572 students conferred diplomas at the institute's 25th convocation ceremony Tuesday.
'Corruption is one of the biggest challenges you will have to check in the world in which you would all be stepping into. Do remember that for every hand that takes, there are hands that give. You will have to cut off those hands,' Irani told the students' gathering.
'Every week, we get to know about corruption or scams from India or other parts of the globe. As a manager, you all need to address the problem. For that, you just need to have faith in honesty and the desirable results would be achieved,' he added.
Irani called upon the graduating students to make every effort for improving the society by giving 'opportunities to the poor and the underprivileged'.
'You are here because you were provided with an opportunity to pursue education from such a reputed institute. Now, it's your turn to pay back to the society by working for the economically weaker sections,' said Irani.
He also asked the students to contribute their bit for the protection of environment.
'Climatic changes are today affecting every part of the globe. The recent example is of Japan. We should realise that climatic changes in near future would also start affecting us in a big way. So, it's now high time we act and take necessary measures,' said Irani.
IIM-L director Devi Singh said: 'Research and consultancy have always been thrust areas at IIM-L. We are proud to say that since its inception, IIM-L has been undertaking several socially relevant reaserch and consultancy projects in areas like agriculture, entrepreneurship, health management, education and rural development.'