AHMEDABAD: Leading scientist and former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation Krishnaswami Kasturirangan will deliver the convocation address at Gujarat Technological University on Monday, the university announced on Saturday.
The tenth convocation of the varsity will be held at Mahatma Mandir and attended by Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, among others.
More than 1 lakh graduates are expected to be conferred with degrees and diplomas by Kasturirangan who is presently the chancellor at Central University of Rajasthan and NIIT University. As many as 133 gold medallists and 51 scholars will be conferred with degrees at the occasion, the varsity said in its media statement.
Over 1,06,511 graduates who passed out from around 500 colleges affiliated with GTU will be awarded degrees, diplomas and other honours, it said.
For the first time, those who have completed their startup projects have been selected for gold medals. Winners of gold medals and those who have completed their PhDs will be awarded in offline function at the Mahatma Mandir.