Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Know-how-Hyderabad (IIT-H) held its eleventh convocation, and its first within the bodily mode because the Covid pandemic, right here on Saturday. The convocation was themed round Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, celebrating 75 years of independence.
IIT-H stated 873 college students secured 884 levels, together with 282 for UG programs, 468 for PG and 134 PhDs. Hogging the limelight had been 4 gold medal winners and two had been awarded silver medals.
These passing out included the primary graduating batch of interdisciplinary and industry-oriented programmes of additive manufacturing, power science & know-how, e-waste useful resource engineering & administration, built-in sensor techniques, polymers and bio-systems engineering and good mobility other than the MTech centre of interdisciplinary programme batch.
The chief visitor, Prof. Subra Suresh, president, Nanyang Technological College (NTU), Singapore, was awarded the institute’s first Honorary Physician of Science (honoris causa). Dddressing the scholars, he stated, “The robust training you might have obtained right here will have an effect not simply in your area people or nation however on the complete humanity. It’s essential that your views don’t focus solely on the area people however equally on the worldwide implications.”
Prof. B.S. Murty, director of IIT-H, offered the President of India gold medal to Shah Nisarg Pankaj from the division of pc science for securing the best total CGPA in BTech.
The opposite gold medalists included Aswin R. (highest CGPA in MTech/MDes), Krishnendu M.S. (highest CGPA in MSc/MA) and Anuraag Chandra Shukla (excellence in lecturers and co-curricular actions).
Dr B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, chairman, board of governors, IIT-H, was current on the event.
