Their degree of happiness knows no bounds

Aarti Kapur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 19

“I want to show my degree to my grandchildren as after having retired from a bank, it won’t serve any other purpose such as helping me with a job,” said 65-year-old Inderjeet Singh, who turned up to collect his 1975 degree of the Department of Laws during a degree mela at Panjab University.

“The young children at home used to ask me which university I studied in and when I used to show them the detailed marks sheet, they would ask me where my degree was,” said Inderjeet Singh, who took voluntary retirement from the bank.

Inderjeet Singh shared his joy with his junior, Subhash Chand, who also visited the degree mela today to collect his two degrees. Interestingly, 64-year-old Subhash also took voluntary retirement from the bank. Both of them went down memory lane on the campus.

Subhash completed his MA (Economics) in 1976 and later joined the Department of Laws and completed his LLB in 1983. “The detailed marks sheet helped me bag a job with a bank and it didn’t occur to me that the degree was also an important document,” he said.

After getting the records checked, Subhash got his economics degree, but the law degree was not available with the department.

“Why don’t the authorities inform the candidate after receiving the degree from the examination branch that he or she has to collect it from the department,” said Subhash Chand, who came to collect his degree 41 years after he got a job. He was under the impression that the department would post the degree to him. “I will now get the degrees framed so that I can show others that I have done my education from this prestigious university,” he said.