16th annual convocation: 820 NIT students get degrees
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 28
As many as 820 students were awarded degrees at the 16th annual convocation of Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology here on Sunday.
Of the total awardees, 608 were for B Tech, 95 for M Tech, 72 for MSc, 15 for MBA and 30 for PhD.
Professor Anil D Sahasrabudhe, chairman, All-India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, was the chief guest. Subhash Chandra Ralhan, chairman, Board of Governors (BoG) of NIT and Managing Director, Sri Tools Private Limited Ludhiana, Prof Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director NIT Jalandhar, SK Mishra, Registrar NIT Jalandhar; members of Board of Governors and members of the Senate, faculty and staff members of NIT were present during the programme.
Sanjana Koli (Bio Technology), Diksha Bala (Civil Engineering), Akshit Arora (Computer Science & Engineering), Prabhjot Singh Grewal (Chemical Engineering), Mohammad Anas (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Ujjwal Duvedi (Instrumentaion & Control), Mohammad A Muwahib (Industrial and Production Engineering), Hardik Gupta (Mechanical Engineering) and Prerna (Textile Engineering) were awarded with gold medal for being the B Tech 2016-2020 batch branch topper.
Hardik Gupta from Mechanical Engineering was awarded the overall topper of B Tech 2016-2020 batch with CGPA 9.00.
Ankita Sharma (Chemical Engineering), Balpreet Singh (Computer Science & Engineering) and Gurjinder Kaur (Computer Science & Engineering- Information Security) were awarded with gold medal for being the M Tech 2018-2020 batch branch topper. From M Sc Bhagya Shree (chemistry), Rahul (mathematics), Malika Singhal (physics) and Neelam Rani (MBA) were awarded with gold medal for achieving first position in their respective branch.
Dr Jatinder Kumar Ratan (chemical engineering), Dr Samayveer Singh (computer science and engineering), Dr Ashish Raman (electronics and communication engineering), Dr Rajiv Kumar Garg (industrial and production engineering), Dr Dinesh Kumar Shukla (mechanical engineering), Dr Praveen Malik (physics) and Dr AK Choudhary (textile technology) were awarded with the best faculty award for their contribution.
Director Awasthi congratulated the degree recipients for their bright future and also motivated them to work hard. Prof Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe congratulated the young, graduating students for earning their degrees, parents for their sacrifice and support and teachers for their unstinted commitment and passion to mold them.
Addressing the convocation, he said: “Education is the fundamental building block in the life of an individual leading to national development and reconstruction. In view of present global ecosystem and employment landscape, not only learning is important, but it is equally important to know how to learn and be a lifelong learner.” He said the last education policy came in 1986. There are many shortcomings in the present education system. In view of contemporary needs of society, unprecedented brainstorming was done to finalise the New Education Policy, in which more than 2 lakh suggestions were taken from 676 districts. The New Education Policy 2020 aims at providing inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities, he said.
BoG chairperson Ralhan said it was one of the important milestones of life that they have achieved. He laid focus on the collaboration between educational institutes or collaboration between academia and industry. “Higher educational institutes play a significant role in the economic growth of a nation in a knowledge-led era,” he added.
