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As galore arsenic 253 candidates volition person their degrees and 2 candidates their postgraduate degrees in-person during the eighth yearly convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad which volition beryllium held connected Saturday.
Addressing a property league connected IIIT Dharwad field connected Wednesday, Director of IIIT Dharwad Mahadev Prasanna said that Director of IIT Delhi Rangan Banerjee volition present the code astatine the convocation which volition statesman astatine 10 a.m.
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi volition beryllium the main impermanent and president of the Board of Governance Jalaj Dani volition beryllium the impermanent of honour.
Prof. Mahadeva Prasanna said that of the full 253 B.Tech candidates, 136 are from Computer Science and Engineering, 66 from Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and 51 from Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Apart from conferring degrees, six medals, including the President of India golden medal, director’s medal for champion outgoing miss pupil and section topper’s medals, volition beryllium presented during the convocation, helium said.
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He said that successful the existent world year, they volition beryllium introducing a B.Tech offline and an M.Tech online people connected AI and Computing with a full intake of 85 students.
Prof. Mahadeva Prasanna said that the M.Tech online people is being introduced nether Study India programme which is aimed astatine attracting students from abroad.
“This apart, the Board of Governance has fixed its support to commencement a span people for B.Sc Computer Science and BCA students who aft completion tin use for M.Tech,” helium said.
He said that IIIT Dharwad was the lone instauration successful India wherever Quantum Computing is being introduced successful a tier-two city. The State government has funded ₹18 crore for Quantum Computer and it volition be commissioned shortly, helium said.
About the caller initiatives, the manager said that the Board of Governance has approved a task for constructing a five-storey probe parkland astatine a outgo of ₹125 crore.
He besides said that a 1,000-capacity hostel for boys volition beryllium inaugurated successful a few months. A 30-room guesthouse is nearing completion and 2 caller classrooms with a seating capableness of 240 are being constructed, helium said.
On placements, helium said that the instauration has registered a 68% placement complaint with the highest connection being ₹65 lakh per annum, with the mean being ₹11.9 lakh per annum.
Dean (Student Welfare) K. Gopinath, Registrar Satish Annigeri and PRO Vasudev Parvati were present.
