PU convocation: 1,500 scholars to get degrees on January 20

PATNA: Around 1,500 scholars who have passed the postgraduation (PG) examinations, including PhD, in different disciplines in 2015-17 session will be awarded degrees at the convocation ceremony of Patna University (PU) to be held at S K Memorial Hall on January 20. As many as 38 students who have topped the examinations of different courses will be awarded gold medals. Former President Pranab Mukherjee will be the chief guest.

This is the second time when Pranab Mukherjee will be delivering the convocation address at PU. Earlier, he had attended the convocation when he was the Union finance minister in 1984. G P Sinha was the vice-chancellor (VC) of PU and the function was held at Patna Science College.

Governor-cum-chancellor Lalji Tandon will preside the ceremony and PU VC Rash Bihari Prasad Singh will give away the degrees to the students. The degree recipients of all the universities will wear gowns as prescribed by the chancellor.

PU examination controller R K Mandal said more than 100 scholars will be awarded PhD degrees. The university will not confer DLitt or DSc degree to the students this year.

The scholars who will be awarded gold medals are Aditya Pathak (Hindi), Zaara Urouj (English), Savita Anand (Sanskrit), Debashish Dhara (Bengali), Kalimuddin (Arabic), Shabnam Praveen (Persian), Mohd Aarif Hussain (Urdu), Suraj Kumar (philosophy), Hera Sulaiman (MJMC), Swati Sinha (history), Anu Priya (political science), Neha Kumari (home science), Kumar Amarendra (ancient Indian history and archaeology), Aishwarya Kumari (economics), Isha (psychology), Surabhi Sinha (geography), Balram Krishna (PMIR), Namita Mishra (rural studies), Divya (social work), Ruma Charaborty (music), Uday Kumar (women’s studies), Deep Raj (MLIS), Manish Kumar (physics), Ashish Kumar (chemistry), Yasha (zoology), Nargis Fatima (botany), Sidhant Gupta (geology), Shubhra (mathematics), Neeraj Kumar Mishra (statistics), Tanu Verma (biochemistry), Sweta Kumari (biotechnology), Nitu Kumari (environmental science), Ghazia Zeenat (herbal chemistry), Shafaque Jawaid (MCA), Surabhi Suman (commerce), Dipti Kumari (MBA), Pallavi Anand (LLM).