BU convocation tomorrow

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Bangalore University (BU) announced that their 57th annual Convocation will be held on Monday at Jnanajyothi Auditorium at the Central College Campus. The Governor and Chancellor of the University Thawar Chand Gehlot will preside over the convocation ceremony.

Minister for Higher Education CN Ashwath Narayan will also be present. Chairman of University Grants Commission M Jagadesh Kumar will be the Chief Guest and is slated to deliver the convocation address.

As many as 300 Gold Medals and 73 cash prizes will be awarded to 167 students, and 267 PhDs will be conferred to the meritorious students on the occasion. A medal of 1.3 gm gold embossed on a 20 gm Silver frame will be handed out to the toppers.

For the first time, all 34,337 students who have applied for convocation can download their degree certificates immediately after the convocation from the Digi Locker and National Academic Depository (NAD), an initiative of the Ministry of Information Technology and Ministry of Education, Government of India.

The hard copy of the certificates will also be made available to the students on the same day immediately after the convocation.

At the 57th convocation three distinguished personalities namely Bungle Shamarao Dwarakanath (Dwarakish), a veteran actor, director and producer who has made remarkable contributions to the field of Kannada Cinema, Amarnath Gowda, Attorney and Counselor at Law, and Founder President of The Law Offices of Amarnath Gowda in Farmington Hills, Michigan, US and Dr T. Anil Kumar, a renowned artist, painter, photographer, social worker, and philanthropist will be conferred with Honorary Doctorate Degrees.