Binay Singh | tnn
Varanasi: The 9th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU was organised at the Swatantrata Bhawan on Monday. Degrees were conferred upon 1,481 meritorious students of different courses including BTech/ BPharm (775), IDD/IMD (259), M Tech/M Pharm (294), and 153 research scholars. Besides, 80 Gold and Silver medals and 16 prizes were also awarded in various categories to 52 graduates.
For the first time, the IIT-BHU held its convocation ceremony using mixed reality technique through which the CEO and founder of a cloud-based information security company in the USA, Jay Chaudhry, also an alumnus of the institute and Padmashri Kota Harinarayan, the chairman of the Board of Governors of the institute attended the ceremony.
Under the Covid-19 protocol, only the recipients of medals, deans, head of the departments, and officials of the institute were present at the convocation while alumnus and current students, academics and other guests from different parts of the country attended the programme online.
The IIT-BHU director Prof Pramod Kumar Jain awarded the degree, medals and prizes to the students. Ankan Bohara of computer science engineering bagged the maximum medals including seven Gold with President’s medal and a silver, and Dr Annie Besant Prize, while Avanish Singh of chemical engineering bagged six Gold and two prizes.
Other meritorious students who were awarded medals are Aman Shreshtha of electronics engineering (five Gold and two prizes), Shikar Gupta of electrical engineering (four Gold and two prizes), Prashant Baghel of mechanical engineering (four Gold and one prize), Anushka Pal of metallurgical engineering (four Gold), Ankit Kumar of civil engineering (two Gold and three prizes), Parth Ajmera of pharmaceutical engineering (two Gold and one prize), Surendra Baniya of civil engineering (two Gold), Vinay Kumar Yadav of mechanical engineering (two Gold), and Shubham Kumar Mahato of mining engineering (two Gold). Ananya Gupta of electrical engineering was awarded with Directors Gold Medal and Indira Tripathi Gold Medal for her outstanding performance.