It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to Deccan College, as it is called in short for Deccan College Post- Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed to be University) . I welcome you all on behalf of all my colleagues and students,present and past,as well as the well-wishers of this great institution.I’m welcoming you as the 5th Vice-Chancellor, who followed an equal number of Directors (1939-1994) and a much larger number of Principals