The second annual convocation of Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) will be held on Friday at Cheri Manatu campus. Union minister of State for Education and Koderma MP, Annapurna Devi will be chief guest at the convocation where she will award degrees to students of the session 2015-2020 of the five-year integrated course and the session 2018-20 of postgraduate and undergraduate courses. The degree holder students also include the gold medalists at different subjects and PHD holders.
The convocation will be held at varsity main campus and it will commence in the afternoon. CUJ Vice Chancellor Prof Kshiti Bhushan Das will preside over the function. Like previous occasions at different varsities at CUJ too, girls will outshine boys in getting gold medals. Gold medals will be awarded to 29 toppers of different subjects, out of which 21 medalist are fair sex. The Chancellor's Medal for special academic achievement will also go to girl students. 761 students will get degrees at the second convocation of varsity.
The Chancellor medal will be given to Pratisha Mishra, the topper of M.Sc Mathematics. The other toppers and gold medalists students include Shiva Choudhary - B.Ed., Pallavi Kundu - M.Sc. Chemistry, Pratisha Mishra - M.Sc. Mathematics, Shaktisudha Das - M.Sc. Physics, Shikhashree - M.Sc. Life Science, Maumita Sahu - M.A. English, Simran Kumari- M.A. Politics and International Relations, Vagishasingh- M.A. Mass. communication, among others.
At the convocation the varsity also planned dress. Under this, there is a sky blue formal dress- saree, salwar suit, kurti and for girl students- full sleeve sky blue shirt and dark colored pants, for the girl students of bachelor/postgraduate degree. The dress code for PhD students is white formal dress- Saree, Salwar Suit, Kurti with Coral (Coral) coloured Bandi. Whereas, the boys have a coral colored bundi with a white shirt and dark colored pants. The scarf for the convocation will be provided by the university.