Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the 38th annual convocation programme of Indian School of Mines (IIT) at Dhanbad. Modi would be the chief guest of the convocation programme, informed Colonel MK Singh, Registrar of the institute besides inaugurating a world-class central library at Dhanbad.
“After a stiff struggle we got successes in getting the PM as the chief guest of the event at ISM IIT. Now we are waiting for the date from the PMO office which might be scheduled between 15 November to 15 February 2018,” he added saying the dates after getting finalised would be announced.
The Central library would be a fully digital, eight floored facility erected at a cost of Rs 65 crore and having the sitting capacity of 2000 students at a time. The library is equipped with all latest furniture and gadgets, collection of 80000 books, 8000 thesis, 35000 journals and 1200 digital books. All books here are equipped with IC chip, which is hard to be stolen.
During the convocation programme students of two batches including 2015-16 and 2016-17 would get their degrees in the convocation programme, said an official.