School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal celebrated its fourth convocation at IISER, Bhopal auditorium on Saturday.
The ceremony began with the SPA, Bhopal anthem. Prof N Sridharan, Director, SPA, Bhopal delivered the Welcome Address and read out the Director’s Report. Prof Sridharan highlighted the remarkable achievements accomplished by the students and faculty of SPA, Bhopal during the last academic year and laid down the tasks ahead in taking SPA, Bhopal to further heights in coming years.
While congratulating the graduates and appreciating the members of faculty, Prof Sridharan called upon the students to harness their own potential and nurture great dreams. Prof Sridharan underscored the importance of collective endeavour and requested the faculty and staff members to work hard to accomplish the tasks together.
In all, 176 students across undergraduate, post graduate and PhD programmes were conferred with their respective graduation certificates. One student from each of the two bachelors and five masters programme were awarded gold medals for academic proficiency. Best thesis for each programme was also awarded.
Bahar Shrivastava and Gaurab Das Mahapatra, toppers of Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Planning (Urban and Regional Planning) programme respectively were awarded the Chairperson’s Gold Medal for all round performance. Ashfaque Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning, SPA, Bhopal, Prashanti Rao, Assistant Professor (Contractual), Department of Planning, SPA, Bhopal and Manju Baisoya Pundir, Practicing Architect, Dubai were conferred with doctoral degrees.
Prof Bimal Patel, Chairman, Board of Governors and a renowned architect of international repute sent a massage which was read out.
Prof Aniket Bhagwat underlined the relevance of vernacular architecture, heritage conservation, landscape planning and called upon the students to enrich their plasma of thought through the trinity of empathy, imagination and purpose. He called upon the students to learn from the best practices executed across the countries in order to build a collective future.
The entire programme was coordinated by Prof Ajay Khare, Dean (Academic Affairs), SPA, Bhopal.