IIT Gandhinagar to host 12th Convocation on July 29 – For the first time, graduating students to be awarded digital degrees, mark sheets, and medal certificates
Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder Chairman and Board Member, Cyient, a global technology solutions company, will be the Chief Guest on the occasion
Gandhinagar: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) is going to host its 12th Convocation on the campus on July 29, 2023. A total of 456 students will graduate from the Institute this year. Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, Indian entrepreneur and Founder Chairman and Board Member of Cyient, a global technology solutions company, will be the Chief Guest on the occasion.
Taking a step forward towards Digital India, for the first time from this year, the graduating students of IITGN will be awarded verifiable and tamper-proof digital degrees, mark sheets, and medal certificates in USB drives so that they can access them from anywhere. The digital degrees will have the digital signatures of the Chairman of the IITGN Board of Governors, the Registrar, and the Director and any attempt to change even a space, comma, or any other detail on the document will make the signatures invalid. The Institute will upload these digital degrees into students’ DigiLocker, and they will be able to access and download them in PDF format using their Aadhaar number for administrative use, such as verification for various applications.
The event will begin with an academic procession, followed by a report by the Director; award of degrees; address by the Chairman of the IITGN Board of Governors; presentation of medals and Institute Fellow Awards; and Convocation address by the Chief Guest. The event will also be streamed online on IITGN’s YouTube channel (iitgn1).
Brief Bio of Dr BVR Mohan Reddy:
Dr BVR Mohan Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur and founder and chairman of Cyient, a global technology solutions company. By pioneering outsourced engineering services from India in 1991, Dr Mohan Reddy led Cyient to contribute over $5 billion in cumulative exports and firmly placed India on the global engineering, research and development (ER&D) services map.
Dr Mohan Reddy spearheaded several industry bodies and served as the Chairman of NASSCOM and Chairman of CII-Southern Region. He is also the Founding Director of T-Hub, India’s largest start-up incubation centre.
Dr Mohan Reddy took up several leadership positions to promote higher education. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Hyderabad and IIT Roorkee, a member of the Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the USA, and a member of the Court of Governors of Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI).
Dr Mohan Reddy is the recipient of the country’s fourth-highest civilian award – the Padma Shri – in 2017 for his contribution to trade and industry.