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NAGPUR: In a rare instance, a BA student has topped the list of prize winners who will be honoured by Nagpur University during its 99th convocation ceremony on October 1. Nearly, 60,000 students would be bestowed with degrees by vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal during the programme at Vasantrao Deshpande Hall from 10am. Eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar will grace the occasion as the chief guest and will deliver a speech on new universities' Act likely to come into effect from next academic year.
Like every year, the fairer sex has again stamped their superiority by not only topping the list of prize winners but also grabbing highest number of medals. LAD College's Arohi Agarkar and GH Raisoni Law College's Aradhana Rewatkar (LLB three-year course) led the pack of prize winners by winning 15 prizes each. They were followed by Saurabh Tapadia (LLB five-year course) of GH Raisoni Law College with 12 prizes and Pundlik Vyahadkar of Vasantrao Naik College with 11 prizes for highest marks in MA (History) exam.
For fourth convocation in a row, NU has failed to confer prestigious Doctor of letters (DLitt) degrees to anyone. But Sapkal, while talking to media assured that they will think over awarding it on the honorary basis like that to melody queen Lata Mangeshkar in 2008., which was marred with the controversies following her refusal to attend the ceremony.
Shrikrushana Kashikar was the last recipient of this coveted degree during 95th convocation in 2009.
This year, 180 students from various faculties will be honoured with 272 gold medals, 41 silver and 107 prizes. NU will also be awarding 479 PhDs, one of its highest, but lower that last year's all-time high of 574.
VC further informed that about 15 new awards, prizes and lecture series will be added from this year after various donors donated funds for the same. This included gold medal in the names of eminent litterateur late Manik Godghate, popularly known as poet Grace, and former registrar late Balraj Aher.
Express feeder line starts in NU
VC also informed that the long awaited express feeder line, which was pending since nearly a decade even after spending Rs 75 lakh, had finally become operational. With this NU departments will get uninterrupted power supply for round the clock. TOI had tracked this issue many a times in a series of reports. Sapkal also added that they relaxed admission criteria for all the PG courses enabling any graduate to pursue a course of his/her liking. "This is a step towards moving interdisciplinary courses and also towards choice-based system," Sapkal said.
Total degrees to be conferred during 99th convocation:
Faculty -------------------- PhD ------- Grad ----------- PG ----------- Overall
Literature ------------------ 72 ---------14,404 ----------- 3,650 -------18,126
Science -------------------- 123 --------4,897 -------------1,863 ------- 6,883
Law ------------------------- 2 ---------- 461 --------------- 241 -------- 704
Medicine ------------------ 7 ---------- 343 -------------- 210 ---------- 560
Commerce --------------- 86 ----------8,205 ------------- 2,380 ------- 10,671
Education ----------------- 58 ---------7,392 ------------ 703 ---------- 8,153
Engineering -------------- 20 --------- 6,211 ------------ 295 --------- 6,526
Social Sciences -------- 105 -------- 693 -------------- 6,630 -------- 7,428
Home Science ---------- 6 ----------- 700 ------------- 125 ---------- 831
ME (by research) - - ------------------------------------ 13 ----------- 13
Total students --------- 479 ----------43,306 ------------16,110 ------59,895
Like every year, the fairer sex has again stamped their superiority by not only topping the list of prize winners but also grabbing highest number of medals. LAD College's Arohi Agarkar and GH Raisoni Law College's Aradhana Rewatkar (LLB three-year course) led the pack of prize winners by winning 15 prizes each. They were followed by Saurabh Tapadia (LLB five-year course) of GH Raisoni Law College with 12 prizes and Pundlik Vyahadkar of Vasantrao Naik College with 11 prizes for highest marks in MA (History) exam.
For fourth convocation in a row, NU has failed to confer prestigious Doctor of letters (DLitt) degrees to anyone. But Sapkal, while talking to media assured that they will think over awarding it on the honorary basis like that to melody queen Lata Mangeshkar in 2008., which was marred with the controversies following her refusal to attend the ceremony.
Shrikrushana Kashikar was the last recipient of this coveted degree during 95th convocation in 2009.
This year, 180 students from various faculties will be honoured with 272 gold medals, 41 silver and 107 prizes. NU will also be awarding 479 PhDs, one of its highest, but lower that last year's all-time high of 574.
VC further informed that about 15 new awards, prizes and lecture series will be added from this year after various donors donated funds for the same. This included gold medal in the names of eminent litterateur late Manik Godghate, popularly known as poet Grace, and former registrar late Balraj Aher.
Express feeder line starts in NU
VC also informed that the long awaited express feeder line, which was pending since nearly a decade even after spending Rs 75 lakh, had finally become operational. With this NU departments will get uninterrupted power supply for round the clock. TOI had tracked this issue many a times in a series of reports. Sapkal also added that they relaxed admission criteria for all the PG courses enabling any graduate to pursue a course of his/her liking. "This is a step towards moving interdisciplinary courses and also towards choice-based system," Sapkal said.
Total degrees to be conferred during 99th convocation:
Faculty -------------------- PhD ------- Grad ----------- PG ----------- Overall
Literature ------------------ 72 ---------14,404 ----------- 3,650 -------18,126
Science -------------------- 123 --------4,897 -------------1,863 ------- 6,883
Law ------------------------- 2 ---------- 461 --------------- 241 -------- 704
Medicine ------------------ 7 ---------- 343 -------------- 210 ---------- 560
Commerce --------------- 86 ----------8,205 ------------- 2,380 ------- 10,671
Education ----------------- 58 ---------7,392 ------------ 703 ---------- 8,153
Engineering -------------- 20 --------- 6,211 ------------ 295 --------- 6,526
Social Sciences -------- 105 -------- 693 -------------- 6,630 -------- 7,428
Home Science ---------- 6 ----------- 700 ------------- 125 ---------- 831
ME (by research) - - ------------------------------------ 13 ----------- 13
Total students --------- 479 ----------43,306 ------------16,110 ------59,895
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