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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Berhampur University holds its 17th convocation


Source: The Hindu
  • Berhampur University celebrated 17th convocation on May 02.
  • Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, Member of National Planning Commission, Syeda Saiyidin Hameed, senior advocate Iqbal M. Chagla, Puri MP Pinaki Mishra and spiritual guru Chandrabhanu Satpathy were awarded LLD.
  • The honorary degrees were also conferred on former chairperson of the National Commission for Women, noted social activist and the daughter-in-law of the former president VV Giri, V. Mohini Giri, Berhampur MP Sidhant Mahapatra, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik, Sambad Editor Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and famous cardiologist Kabi Prasad Mishra.
  • Degrees were also awarded to 9,500 students and DLitt, PhD as well as DSc to 188 researchers                                                                                 
  • Berhampur University celebrated its 17th convocation on Wednesday. During the occasion nine eminent people were conferred honorary LLD degree while one was honoured with DSC degree. Member of national Planning Commission, Syeda Saiyidin Hameed, who was the chief guest of the occasion, was conferred with honorary LLD degree.  The honorary degrees were also conferred on woman activist V. Mohini Giri, Berhampur MP Sidhant Mahapatra, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik, Odia newspaper editor Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and cardiologist Kabi Prasad Mishra. Four others — leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, senior advocate Iqbal M. Chagla, Puri MP Pinaki Mishra and spiritual guru Chandrabhanu Satpathy — were awarded the degree in absentia. Besides, degrees were awarded to 9,500 students and DLitt, PhD as well as DSc to 188 researchers.
During her address Ms. Hameed stressed on the need to redefine development in the context of social justice. “Have the indicators of growth in the GDP gone together with an upward movement in the indicators of human development?” she asked.
Odisha governor and chancellor of the universities M.C. Bhandare said Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Boudh, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri districts, under the jurisdiction of Berhampur University, had shown an improved literacy rate. “Each district except Malkangiri has bridged the gap between male and female literacy during 2001-11. The university has evinced a keen interest in implementing the Gyanalok programme launched by me to find out reasons for the high dropout rate among the tribal girls and create awareness among the marginalised sections,” he said. University vice-chancellor J.K. Mahapatra said they had planned extension activities and outreach programmes by way of establishing Centre for Extension Services on Coastal Zone Management and Awareness Programme for Women Empowerment with funding from the University Grants Commission.
It may be noted that Berhampur University was established in 1967 and had only 11 colleges under it during its inception. Now colleges under the university have gone up to 136. It is one of the few universities in India to offer courses on military sciences.
Source: The Hindu & The Telegraph

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