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| Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Periyar University convocation: 136 students
to receive gold medals
Six more new departments to come up in the coming academic
year: VC
- 17 students to get endowment medals
- Centre for Nanotechnology proposed
Salem: A total of 136 students will be presented with gold medals
at the 8th convocation of Periyar University on November 5.
Governor Surjit Singh Barnala will participate in the convocation
and present the degree certificates to students to be held on
the university premises, Vice-Chancellor M. Thangaraju told
reporters here on Monday.
Indira Gandhi National Open University Vice-Chancellor and Distance
Education Council Chairman V.N. Rajasekaran Pillai would deliver
the convocation address. Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi
would also participate, he added.
The University, Mr. Thangaraju pointed out, would hold the convocation
on its premises for the first time as the construction of the
auditorium had been completed recently. The gold medallists
include 28 PhD scholars, 25 M.Phil students, 33 postgraduate
students and 38 undergraduate students.
Of them, 98 candidates are women. Seventeen students would also
get endowment medals during the programme, he said.
Speaking on the growth of the university, the Vice-Chancellor
said six more new departments would come up in the coming academic
year. Efforts were already on to establish a Centre for Nanotechnology
and a Centre for Solar Energy. Meanwhile, the district administration
conducted a meeting to discuss the arrangements to be made for
the visit of the Governor to Salem to participate in the convocation.
Collector N. Mathivanan, presiding, called upon the officials
of all the departments to cooperate with the administration
in making the arrangements.
He asked the police to made adequate security arrangements on
the venue of the convocation. Two medical teams would be deputed
for the visit.
Superintendent of Police N.M. Mayilvahanan, University Registrar
Gunasekaran, District Rural Development Agency Project Officer
D. Jagannathan, Joint Director of Health Kandammal, Salem Government
Medical College Hospital Dean P. Shanmugam and senior officials
were present in the meeting.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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