Jharkhand Governor- cum- Chancellor of Jharkhand universities Ramesh Bais would give away awards at IIT- ISM student of 2020 batch of the institute during the 41st convocation to be held here on Saturday.
Governor would give away gold medals to students who topped at different streams including Phd , M.tech, Btech, MBA and other departments.
Governor after attending the convocation would also take part in a national seminar organised by BBMKU on education scenario and relevance of Sanskrit on same day. He would remain here for two hours before leaving for Ranchi.
On Sunday Chief minister Hemant Soren would attend the concluding session of the seminar.
At annula convocation of IIT-ISM degrees will be conferred on 3637 scholars and students of 2019-20 and 2020-21 batches. Prof Prem Vrat, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad will preside over the function. Prof Rajiv Shekhar, Director, IIT (ISM) will present a report on the activities of the Institute.
A total of 1978 degrees will be awarded while on the second day, 1659 degrees will be conferred.
Himanshu Bhushan Sandhibigrah (B. Tech, Electrical Engineering) will be awarded the President’s Gold Medal for the 2019-20 batch, while Ajit Kumar (B. Tech, Computer Science & Engineering) will receive the President’s Gold Medal for 2020-21 batch during the function.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) award would be given to 420 students while 14 students of 2019-20 batch will get a bachelor of engineering (BE) degree). 790 students of 2019-20 sessions and 788 of 2020-21 batch will be given the B.Tech degree.
34 students of 2019-20 sessions and 20 students of 2020-21 batch will get 5 Year Dual Degree. 56 students of 2019-20 and 62 students of 2020-21 batch will get a Master of Technology (under 5 years integrated programme) degree.
Master of science and technology degree (3 years) would be given to 106 students of 2019-20 batch and 83 students of 2020-21 batch.