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Graduating students of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will miss out on the experience of walking up a stage to get their degrees or the ceremonial tossing of hats in the air this year, as the institutes have opted for virtual convocation ceremonies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 58th convocation ceremony of IIT-Bombay (IIT-B) will be held virtually on August 23, keeping in mind the safety of students, announced director Subhasis Chaudhuri. “We will have two very distinguished guests of honour. The chief guests for the event are Stephen Schwarzman, founder and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group, and Duncan Haldane, professor at Princeton University and 2016 Nobel laureate in Physics,” he said.
While Schwarzman will deliver the commencement speech, Haldane will deliver the chief guest’s speech. Graduating students will participate via video conferencing, and the entire event will be webcast for public viewing.
This is the first time IIT-B will hold a virtual convocation ceremony, with over 2,100 students graduating in various programmes, said P Sunthar, co-convenor of the convocation committee.