Surat: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant will deliver the convocation address on the campus of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) on Friday.
As many as 36,614 students will be conferred degrees at the first offline event in the city since the global pandemic forced nationwide lockdown.
The 52nd convocation will be held in the convention hall where nearly 500 students will be allowed entry despite the capacity of 1,150 considering the social distancing norms.
“Students without masks will not be allowed inside the hall. They will be provided sanitizers too ,” said a senior university official.
Governor and chancellor of VNSGU, Acharya Devvrat will preside over the function. Earlier, the university was planned to hold the convocation online, but following orders from chancellor it is being held offline.
The highest number of degrees, 10,971, in commerce faculty followed by 9,643 in arts and 8,308 in science. A total of 109 students will be awarded gold medals, 85 PhD degrees and 14 MPhil degrees .
“Only a few students will be handed over the degrees and medals at the event while the majority of them will be sent the degrees at their addresses,” said a university notification.