Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology hosted its fifth convocation for 348 of its students on Monday.
Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) hosted its fifth convocation for 348 of its students on Monday. At the ceremony, the institute's director Dr RN Vakil highlighted the various academic initiatives taken up by Cept and its members.
"We have three undergraduate and 21 postgraduate programmes with an overall strength of 1450 students.
We have 100 full time faculty members and an equal number of visiting faculty. In addition, this year we have admitted 100 under graduate and 340 post graduate students.
Our doctoral programme, formulated in 2005 when we became a university, has around 100 students, of which two will receive their degrees today," Dr Vakil said.
Of the 348 students who graduated this year, two were awarded PhD degrees, 251 students received their PG degree and 95 students got their bachelor's.
Gracing the occasion was Padma Shri Prof Sitanshu Yashaschandra, noted poet, playwright, translator and academician and Naishadh Parikh, member of governing body of Cept.
Dr Vakil also spoke about certain grants provided to various Cept centres. He said, "Centre for Sustainable Environment and Energy, involved in building energy efficiency since five years has received a grant of Rs6.5 crore for 'Solar Passive Architecture and Green Building Technologies' from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.
The state government has also agreed to grant Rs1 crore for the construction of 'Net Zero Energy Building' to house laboratories and other activities of this Centre."
Besides this, Centre for Conservation Studies had prepared a dossier for Ahmedabad's World Heritage City nomination which has been forwarded to World Heritage Centre, Paris as India's first city nomination on behalf of the Archaeological Survey of India, the government of India.
"Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to release a book on 'Evolution and Growth of Sardar Sarovar: The Lifeline of Gujarat' which is being published by Cept university press under the Centre for Publication and Documentation. From next year on, our institute will have year-long celebrations to mark 50 years of founding the School of Architecture of Cept. A website is being created for the same," added the director.
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