The President Pranab Mukherjee will be on a one-day visit to Punjab on May 2. He will be the chief guest at the eighth convocation of lovely Professional University (lPU) in Phagwara sub-division of Kapurthala district.
Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnor will preside over the function. It will be the President’s second visit to the lPU. He had visited the varsity in 2013.
A university release said that the President will give gold medals to 38 students while 15,988 regular and distance learning students drawn from different parts of the country as well as 50 other countries will get degrees, diplomas and certificates.