The Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University at Hisar will award degrees to 863 graduates during its convocation ceremony on July 26. Besides this, 37 students will be awarded gold medals for their outstanding performance in the field of education and research.
A spokesman of the university said that degrees would be awarded to 462 male students and 401 female students.
He said that out of the 37 gold medals to be awarded in the convocation ceremony, 11 gold medals would be awarded to Home Science graduates whereas out of the remaining 26 gold medals 50 per cent would be received by the female students.
In the courses of Haryana Agricultural University, the number of girls is less as compared to boys even than the number of gold medals to be awarded among boys and girls are equal which is an indication of better performance of girls, he said.
Giving details of the gold medal awardees, he said that among Ph.D students Anil Duhan, Om Prakash, Rekha Rani and Santosh would be awarded Dr VD Kashyap Gold Medal and Parvati Sharma, Smriti, Dipika kalkal and Kanika Tehri would be awarded Silver Jubilee Gold Medal for Women.
Similarly, at graduation level, for BSc Agriculture (Honours), Merit Gold Medal would be awarded to Taruna lamba, Reena Rani, Reena Kumari and Pooja Rani, whereas in BTech. Agriculture Engineering to Pradeep and Vinod Kumar.