Next year varsity will complete 100 years. It is trying to invite PM Narendra Modi for the centenary year celebrations.
Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
President Ram Nath Kovind will be the chief guest at the annual convocation of Jamia Milllia Islamia, an official of the university said on Sunday. The convocation is scheduled on October 30.
As per the PRO-Media coordinator Ahmad Azeem, over 5,000 students, including more than 360 gold medalists, who passed from the university in 2017 and 2018 will be awarded their degrees and diplomas at the convocation.
On October 29, the university will turn 99, next year it will complete 100 years. Varsity is trying to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the centenary year celebrations, sources said.
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The convocation ceremony will be organised at MAK Pataudi Sports Complex of the university. Students of 2017 and 2018 batches are requested to contact the office of the Controller of Examination for queries, Azeem said.
In 2014, the then President Pranab Mukherjee was the chief guest at the convocation of the university. Last year, the convocation was not held since the university had no vice-chancellor.
Jamia Milllia Islamia was founded in 1920 and became a central university in 1988.
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