Chidambaram to be chief guest at PAU convocation
Union Minister of Finance P. Chidambaram will be the chief guest at the annual convocation of Punjab Agricultural University to be held here on October 31.
The Chancellor,Gen S.F. Rodrigues (retd),will preside.
According to the Registrar, Dr V.K. Sharma, 333 degrees will be awarded. Out of these, 70 are Doctor of Philosophy and 263 Masters’ Programme (Master of Science, Business Administration, Technology and Veterinary Science). In addition, 80 merit certificates would be given to the candidates who have secured highest overall grade point average of 8 or more out of 10.
At the convocation,Dr. Sharma said 31 gold medals and medals, nine awards and one prize will also be given. The degrees to be awarded cover the period from July, 2005, to June, 2006.
The students of College of Veterinary Science,who secured degrees from PAU till April 20, 2006, will also be given degrees; though, College of Veterinary Science has since been elevated to the status of a University. In all, 26 M.V.Sc. degrees will be awarded.
College get-together for prize winners
Doraha, October 27
A get-together was held at Doraha College here today for students who won prizes during the Ludhiana Zone-A youth and heritage festival organised at guru nanak National college.
Dr Narinder Singh Sidhu, Principal, asked them to work hard and participate in forthcoming inter-zonal festivals to be organised at DAV College, Chandigarh, from November 1.
He said out of a total of 40 items presented in the festival, the college participated in 38 items and won commendation in 29 items. “If the participation was of 137 students, 121 have been placed on various positions. The college secured the first positions in 15 items,” he said.
Individual positions were won by Ramandeep Singh, Harvir Singh, Davinder Singh, Ajaypal Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Harjinder Singh, Jagjodh Singh, Sunita Rani, Rajvir Kaur, rupinder Kaur, Parmeet Singh, Jaspreet Kaur, Pavil and Sukhwinder Singh.
Dr Kuldeep Singh and Prof Harminder Kaur, organising secretary of the festival, also congratulated the winners. OC