<span style="color: #222222;">Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today stressed the need for political empowerment of women by providing adequate reservation for them in Parliament and State legislatures. He was speaking at the 3rd Convocation of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.<br />''<br />''Mr Naidu said, he is happy that women constitute 51 per cent of the students in JNU because of Special Admission Policy for them, students hailing from distant places and those belonging to marginalized sections.<br />''<br />''Mr Naidu said, it is a matter of pride that JNU has become synonymous with academic excellence in the country. He is happy to note that JNU has recently received the highest ranking, Grade A from NAAC.<br />''<br />''The Vice President said that the time has come for India to once again emerge as a global hub of learning. He said universities and institutions of higher learning have to reorient their methods of teaching and focus more sharply on research for this to happen. He said that the multi-disciplinary approach to learning must be brought back.</span><br />