Secretary, Department of Defence (R&D) and Chairman, Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Dr Sameer V Kamat honoured the meritorious students with medals and awards at the 12th convocation ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) at Swatantrata Bhawan in BHU here on Friday as the chief guest. A total of 108 medals (106 gold and two silver) and awards were given to 66 students.
In the convocation ceremony, degrees were awarded to 1,660 students of various courses of the institute, including 954 BTech, 247 IDD, 223 M Tech/ M Pharma and 44 MSc students. The doctoral degrees were also awarded to more than 192 research scholars. Divyansh Chandra Roy, B Tech, Electronics Engineering, was awarded five gold medals and two awards, including the President’s Gold Medal for overall excellent performance in academics at the B Tech level in the IIT (BHU) and demonstrated excellent performance in all areas and organisational and leadership abilities. Raghav Soni, B Tech, Electronics Engineering was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal for his contribution.
The prize distribution function was conducted by Dean of Academics, Prof Shyam Bihari Dwivedi. During this, Chairman of the Board of Governors Padma Shri Dr Kota Harinarayan, Director of the institute Prof Pramod Kumar Jain and Registrar (in-charge) Rajan Srivastava were also present on the stage. Before this, the function started with garlanding of the statue of Bharat Ratna Pt Madan Mohan Malaviya, lighting of lamp, chanting of Vedic mantras and recital of ‘kulgeet’. The commencement of the convocation was announced by the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Padma Shri Dr Kota Harinarayan. After this, Director Prof Pramod Kumar Jain read the report of the achievements of the institute.
After this a total of nine alumni were honoured with the Distinguished Alumnus/ Alumna Student Award 2023-24 in the convocation programme. These include Ghanshyam Prasad (Electrical-88) in the professional field, Prof Alok Gupta (Mining-88) in the academic field, Sudhir Singh (Civil-93) in the industry/entrepreneurship field, Manu K Vora (Chemical-68) ) for public life, Vikas Agrawal (Chemical-95) and Soumya Sarkar (Mechanical-79) for distinguished service to the institute and Prateek Maheshwari (Mechanical-11), Dr Akshay Kumar Rathore (Electrical-03) and Abhilash Sreedharan (Metallurgy-08) were awarded the Young Alumnus Achiever Award.
Ghanshyam Prasad, Dr Akshay Kumar Rathore and Prateek Maheshwari were present in the ceremony, who were honoured with the prestigious Alumni Award 2023-24 by the Director and given a cheque of `51,000. The awards were announced by Dean (Resources and Alumni) Prof Rajeev Srivastava. Dean of Research and Development Prof Vikash Kumar Dubey, Dean of Student Affairs, Prof LP Singh, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Dr RK Singh, members of the Senate, heads of departments of all departments, coordinators, members of the Board of Directors, teachers, officers, students and their parents were also present at the ceremony.