20 lakh univ degrees to be disbursed in a single day!

For the first time in the country, a university would disburse a record 20 lakh  pending degrees to its students on Tuesday. These degrees which were not  disbursed for the past 20 years by University of Rajasthan would now be disbursed.

There would be  a convocation in which the chief guest would be  Governor Kalyan Singh. The main convocation which will be held at the new  convocation centre will a symbolic event in which out of the 20 lakh students,  Chancellor Kalyan Singh will present five degrees of Doctor of Science and .D Litts and 72 gold medals.

The acting vice chancellor Hanuman Singh Bhati said Tuesday’s convocation would be a unique event where 20 lakh degrees would be disbursed in a day.

The university did not issue any degrees  between 1990 and 2014. Between the year 1990 to 2002 over 80,388 degrees were pending and the number started swelling each year.

The University’s Chancellor Kalyan Singh on the plea made by the past students ordered that they should be given degrees. A number of students, including doctors, IAS and IPS officers, MLAs, Union ministers, Ambassadors and high commissioners all these years could not get their degrees because of the apathy of the university. The university has set up 52 centres in the  city to disburse the degrees to those who want to collect the degrees from Jaipur.

The university has set up a separate website on which the unique number would be uploaded. Any institute can verify the validity of the degree from this website. The university has used micro text technology to prepare the degrees to enable give all the information about the course and the mark sheet of the student.  Bar codes will be used in the degree and one could get all the details by using the bar code reader.

Getting the degrees printed was a big problem as a lot of security steps were needed to get them printed.

“ In all 400 gold medals which could  not be disbursed all these years will be disbursed. Pure gold worth 1.4 grams has been used for making these gold medals. Gold plating will have 0.5 gram of gold plating and 8.5 grams of silver plating. Each gold medal will weigh 10.4 grams and each gold medal would cost Rs 4585. The medal will carry the emblem of the university on one side and details about the student and course on the other side of the medal.”

Source | Free Press Journal | 7 July 2015