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Vice President to attend Utkal University convocation on April 3

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BHUBANESWAR: Vice president Venkaiah Naidu is scheduled to attend the convocation ceremony of Utkal University to be held on April 3. After getting confirmation from the VP office, the convocation date was announced by the university on Wednesday evening.

“We received confirmation that the vice president will visit Odisha and attend our convocation ceremony on April 3. We were eagerly waiting for the confirmation from the VP office to finalise the convocation date,” said Utkal University vice-chancellor Sabita Acharya.

She said the vice president’s office had given a tentative date (April 2). The office had again communicated to the university to change the date. “Now the confirmed date has arrived. We had conducted a meeting for the convocation ceremony, but we will again hold another meeting on this celebration within one or day two,” said the vice-chancellor.

Sources said the university had planned to invite the President for the convocation ceremony, but it could not be materialised. Initially, there was a plan to hold the ceremony in March, but the university could not get a confirmed date from its chief guests for this month.

Due to Covid situation, the university could not hold its convocation ceremony last year. It will hold an award giving ceremony on April 1 to award PhD degrees to 127 scholars, DLitt to two scholars, gold medals to 90 students and 20 other awards for the previous year’s convocation.

For this year’s convocation, the university will award PhD degrees to 40 scholars, gold medals to 90 students and other awards including Chancellor’s Cup to 20 students. Discussion on finalisation of Honoris Causa and DLitt awards was underway, said the official sources.

Last convocation of the university was conducted on March 29, 2019. As many as 89 students had received gold medals on the occasion. D Litt degree was awarded to two scholars, while 245 scholars were awarded with PhD degrees.



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Utkal University VC office gheraoed over pharmacy dept issues

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BHUBANESWAR: Students of pharmacy department of Utkal University on Monday gheraoed office of university’s vice-chancellor Sabita Acharya and apprised her about their department problems.

The students came out in a procession from their department to the administrative block of the university and staged a dharna in front of the VC office seeking fulfilment of their five-point charter of demands.

They have been demanding for development of infrastructure of their department, especially unavailability of classrooms. “We do not have enough classrooms and sufficient faculties. Teachers are very much important to maintain the quality of education. We have only seven faculty members for four batches of B Pharm, two batches of M Pharm and PhD scholars,” said an agitating student.

They also demanded for regularisation of the department. “Now department of pharmacy is a self-finance department and it runs the show by taking fees from the students. Regularisation of the department will solve all the problems of the department,” said another student.

The protesting students also requested the VC to add new equipment and chemicals in the laboratory. “Laboratory development is a vital part of our education. Another major issue is holding examinations on time. Delay in examination will create problems for the students to get certificates and jobs,” said the agitating student.

University VC Acharya said they will provide an extra classroom for the department to hold the classes. “As the department is running in self-financing mode, it will look after the laboratory development and faculty issues. Conducting examinations in time is the responsibility of the department head,” she added.

She said they will hold a meeting with the faculties of the department within seven days and discuss these demands one by one.

On September 25, 2018, students of this department had staged dharna in front of the office of the university VC over their department problems.



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