900 students get degrees at NIT Jamshedpur 11th convocation

Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was the chief guest, while Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda was the guest of honour. 

A total of 904 students were awarded degrees at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, at its 11th convocation ceremony held recently. 

As per a report published in The Telegraph, the graduating batch 587 included BTech students, 145 MTech students, 84 from MCA and 16 PhD students. However, keeping in mind the COVID-19 pandemic, of the total 904 graduating students, about 400 students were invited to the institute to receive certificates on the occasion. 

Two BTech students were awarded gold medals for undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses, while 16 received silver medals at the NIT Jamshedpur convocation ceremony. 

Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan attended the convocation ceremony as the chief guest virtually, while Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda, the guest of honour, attended the ceremony physically. 

NIT Jamshedpur Director Karunesh Kumar Shukla said, “Five convocation functions took place between 2017 and 2021 during my tenure as an NIT Director.” Shukla said a boys’ hostel with the intake capacity of 1,000 students will come up on the campus at a cost of INR 91 crore. 

The report said around 42 students got job offers worth INR 40-50 lakh per annum, while 65 students got annual packages between INR 30 and 40 lakh, NIT stated in a press release. 

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