1,498 students to be felicitated at NIT convocation today

As many as 1,498 students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) will get various degrees at the 15th convocation of the institute tomorrow. This was stated by Prof HM Suryavanshi, director of the NIT, while addressing a pre-event media interaction at the institute here on Saturday.

He said that Vaishaliny V would be awarded the ‘Director’s Medal’ for her outstanding all-round performance during the year. Dr Sudatta Kar, vice-president and head of Engineering, Capgemini India, will be chief guest, while Ajay Kumar Sharma, director, personnel, will be the guest of honour, said Prof Surayavanshi. Capgemini is a French multinational IT services and consulting company having its headquarter in Paris.

The director said that apart from the ‘Director’s Medal’, students would be awarded 37 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze medals.

Speaking on the INRF ranking, Prof Suryavanshi said unfortunately the INRF ranking of the institute had gone down due to various issues prevalent in the institute and those had been sorted out. He added that efforts were on to improve the INRF ranking in coming years.

He added that despite adverse situations the pass out and on campus placement of the NIT had reached 81 per cent, which was much better than those institutes who ranked better in INRF ranking. Dr Archana Nanoty, registrar, and deans of the NIT were also present on the occasion.