IIT Delhi to hold its 53rd convocation ceremony tomorrow; 2,100 students to get degrees

NEW DELHI: The 53rd annual convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) will be held on November 5, 2022. Abhijeet Banerjee, nobel laureate, Economic Sciences 2019 and Ford Foundation International professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be the chief guest on the occasion.

Addressing the media, IIT Delhi director Rangan Banerjee on Friday said that 2,100 graduating students will be awarded degrees and diplomas at the IIT Delhi convocation ceremony.

Degrees and diplomas will be awarded for the first time to the students graduating in the following new programmes: Joint PhD (IIT Delhi and NYCU, Taiwan), joint PG Diploma in Visionary Leadership for Manufacturing (jointly with NITIE Mumbai), MS (R) in Sensors, Instrumentation, and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering, MSc in Cognitive Science, and MSc in Economics.

The Institute will also award the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma (Former President of India) Gold Medal, Perfect Ten Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medal to the meritorious students.

IIT Delhi will honor its thirteen esteemed alumni with the coveted Alumni Awards 2022 viz. Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA), Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award and Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA) at the 53rd convocation.

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IIT Delhi Infrastructure

This year, three centrally air-conditioned student hostels named Dronagiri, Saptagiri and Sahyadri have been constructed and students have been on-boarded. The total number of rooms taken together is 1,208 out of which, Sahyadri is a girl’s hostel with a capacity of 320 rooms.

The Board of Governors (BoG) have given approval for construction of five new infrastructure projects amounting worth Rs 680 crore. These include - girls hostel, Boys hostel, Academic Block, Staff and Faculty housing, the official statement said.

IIT Delhi will very soon undertake a drive to install Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the campus to promote usage of EVs.

“ Mittal Sports Complex which is partly funded by IIT Delhi Alumni – Saurabh Mittal, was inaugurated and fully functional. The 2022 Inter-IIT Sports Meet will take place at the state-of-the-art facilities in this complex,” it said.

The institute said that in the financial year 2021-22, 286 sponsored projects with total funding of Rs 351.90 crores were undertaken through the Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Unit and Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), which is an industry interface organisation at IIT Delhi.

The last placement season at IIT Delhi in the academic year 2021-22 broke all the previous records. Over 1300 job offers were received from over 600 companies offering over 1,000 job roles by final year students.