Continuing the trend of defeating their male counterparts on the academic front, this year again, out of 52 gold medalists, 32 gold medals will be grabbed by the girls from different streams during the 31st convocation ceremony of Ranchi University (RU) on Monday.
RU VC Dr. Ramesh Kumar Pandey during a press meet on Saturday, said, “Around 46 gold medalists from different regular and professional streams have been selected by the university while six gold medals are those that are given in the name of eminent personalities annually to the students for their commendable performance in their respective subjects,”
“The memorial awards include best master degree holder in professional course, Savitri Devi gold medal for overall best MBBS graduate, Prem Kumar Poddar memorial award for commerce, Dr. lP Vidyarthi Gold medal for Anthropology, Devi Prasad Gold medal for best graduate law student, Govinda Minz award for History. A cheque of Rs. 10,000 will be given to the each recipient of these honors,” the RU VC added.
According to the university’s record, as many as 1456 students of two batches, 2014-16 and 2013-16, will receive their degrees. Pandey confirmed that the university personnel have received the consent of Governor, Droupadi Murmu who happens to be the Chancellor of universities to grace the occasion as the chief guest.
The VC said that the university is on its last lap of preparation. Discussing the minute to minute schedule, Pandey further added, “The programme will start from 11:30 AM. As per the university protocol besides other dignitaries, members of Syndicate and Senate along with former Vice-Chancellors of RU will also attend the convocation ceremony.”