Allahabad University yet to get education ministry’s nod for DLitt degree to Gulzar – Times of India

Also, Governor Anandiben Patel, who is the rector of AU, would also be not attending the function because of a prior engagement.

“We have still not received the approval of the ministry for conferring the honorary degree of DLitt on Gulzar Shaheb, and hence he would not be attending the convocation ceremony,” AU public relation officer (PRO) Jaya Kapoor told reporters on Saturday.
The decision to confer an honorary degree to Gulzar was taken by the varsity’s Academic Council and the Executive Council. Following this, a proposal was prepared and sent to the Union ministry of education. However, the ministry did not approve the proposal.

Union minister for education Dharmendra Pradhan will be the chief guest at the convocation function. Similarly, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and managing director Ashish Chauhan will join the function in the capacity of AU Chancellor.

A total of 263 medals would be awarded to the meritorious students and 550 students would be awarded with PhD degrees in the function. These would be for academic sessions 2018-19 and 2019-20.

For the academic session 2018-19, Chancellor’s Gold Medal would be awarded to Himanshu Dubey of BALLB, Neha Mishra of BSc Bio would be given Chancellor’s Silver medal and Kulbhushan Tiwari of BA will be awarded Chancellor’s Bronze Gold Medal. At the same time, Shivnekar Revathi Vijay of MSc Cognitive Science in postgraduate courses will be awarded Chancellor’s Gold Medal and Shreya Agarwal of MSc Computer Science will be awarded Chancellor’s Silver Gold Medal.

Under the undergraduate courses of academic session 2019-20, Anshika Mittal of BCA will be awarded Chancellor Gold Medal, Shalvika Upadhyay of BA will be awarded Chancellor Silver Medal, Urja Srivastava of BTech will be awarded Chancellor Bronze Medal. In PG, Madhavi Singh of MSc Botany will be decorated with Chancellor’s Gold Medal and Shashank Mani Tripathi of MSc Biotechnology will be decorated with Chancellor’s Silver Medal.

Awards will also be given in the name of ‘Dronacharya’ and ‘Meghnad Saha’ for the first time in the convocation. The names of the recipients of these two awards will be announced at the function. Dronacharya award will be given to two teachers and two scholars will be awarded the Meghnad Saha award for good research.

The minister will also inaugurate three buildings. The PRO said that a girl’s hostel named Gargi hostel will be inaugurated. The hostel, located in the women’s hostel (WH) campus, has 124 seats. A 34-seat Chandrashekhar Azad International Hostel and Major Dhyanchand activity will also be inaugurated.