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IIT Roorkee awards degrees to 2701 students
Hindustan Times··5d ago
IIT Roorkee concluded its 2026 convocation on September 19 and 20, awarding degrees to 2701 students across both days. On day one, 1277 undergraduates received degrees, with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval as chief guest. On day two, 1424 postgraduate, PhD and research degrees were conferred. Srivaradan Balaji won the President's Gold Medal at the ceremony.
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What It Means For You
- Undergraduate recipients included 1,001 men and 276 women, per institute figures.
- Postgraduate recipients included 702 men and 201 women; PhD counts were 346 men and 172 women.
- Adv. Harish Salve, Board of Governors chair, presided on day one.
What's Happening
- Day-one degrees covered B.Arch, B.Tech, integrated programmes, IDD, BS-MS and B.S. courses.
- Day-two awards included 903 postgraduate degrees, 518 PhD or dual PhD degrees, and 3 MS by Research degrees.
- Hero MotoCorp CEO Harshavardhan Chitale was chief guest on day two.
Who Took the Medals
- Navneet Kumar received the Director Gold Medal.
- Aashi Jain won the President of India Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal.
- Roopa Taneja and Sukrit Jindal took the Institute Silver and Bronze medals.
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