President to award degrees at IIT-Patna
President Pranab Mukherjee will on Saturday honour two students of IIT, Patna with gold medals, three with silver medals while 89 students will get BTech degrees at the second annual convocation to be held at Rabindra Bhawan here. The President, who will arrive here at 4.30pm on Saturday, will return to New Delhi at 6.05pm, according to chairman of the IITP, Ajai Chowdhry. Bihar governor D Y Patil and CM Nitish Kumar will be guests of honour on the occasion. Chowdhry told mediapersons here that three PhD scholars would also be honoured by the President. He hoped the next academic session of the institute would be conducted at Bihta, 30km from here, on a campus spread over 500 acres. The new campus, having three schools - School of engineering and technology, School of basic sciences and School of humanities and social sciences - would have 10 departments and 747 students. According to Chowdhry, by 2022, the IIT Patna would have 5,360 students and 530 teachers. The new campus would b