Girls will get 60% of Gujarat University medals...

The 59th convocation of 243 students of Gujarat University (GU) will be held on Friday evening at the Senate Hall. Fifty thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students belonging to various streams will be awarded their degrees at the convocation. The chief guest for the event will be governor of Gujarat Shrimati Kamla.

Girls have outperformed boys with the former accounting for 60% of the medals to be given away. The university will also present 53 scholarships to deserving students. Several students have one more than five medals.

Apurv Patel, a third year MBBS student has won nine medals for his outstanding performance.   

Kinjal Kothari of third year LLB will be awarded seven medals and Shaishav Shah of BE electrical is to be presented five medals.

Apart from them, the University will felicitate five girl students of microbiology and botany department who received a whooping sum of Rs1.09 crore from the central government to pursue their post PhD research.  This year too the GU administration has come under fire for its shoddy arrangements for the function. 

Due to the limited seating capacity in the hall, the administration decided to invite only 300 students. This has annoyed the students. According to sources, many senate members have not yet received their invitations and this has outraged them too.