Chennai: IIT-Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA) has announced launch of a ‘Mission Million Smiles’ initiative to create a positive impact on the lives of at least one million people in India and rest of the world in two years.
The Association seeks to channelise the energy, resources and commitment of its alumni in achieving this objective, a release from IIT-Madras said.
Another key initiative of IITMAA is the ‘Mission 5000 Ignited Minds’, which aims to get 10 per cent of the Alumni as committed volunteers for its initiatives.
IIT Madras Alumni Association has a total of 53,825 members, including 22,179 UGs and 31,646 PGs.
IITMAA president Krishnan Narayanan said ‘we are inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat address last year on the importance of alumni associations to the nation.’
‘The IITMAA ecosystem, comprising over 50,000 alumni, students and faculty, has the potential, knowledge and skills, and resources to become a powerful change agent. It is important for us to give back to India, and to our local communities’, he added.