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As galore arsenic 10,691 candidates volition person assorted degrees astatine the 21st yearly convocation of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) successful Mysuru connected January 31.
Continuing the inclination of erstwhile years, women person outnumbered men, with 6,704 women and 3,987 men acceptable to person degrees.
The convocation volition witnesser the conferment of 68 PhD degrees, too 65 golden medals and 62 currency prizes. Degrees volition beryllium awarded to students from the 2021–22 January rhythm to the 2023–24 January cycle, arsenic good arsenic to eligible candidates from the 2013–14 and 2014–15 world years, pursuing support from the State authorities and Raj Bhavan.
Addressing a property league present connected January 30, Vice-Chancellor Sharanappa V. Halse said 10,691 candidates retired of 14,069 had passed the undergraduate and postgraduate examinations conducted during the 2021–22 to 2023–24 cycles, signaling an wide walk percent of 75.50.
He said the highest fig of PhDs this twelvemonth were awarded successful the taxable of Kannada, portion History recorded the least, with conscionable 1 doctoral degree.
Regarding the long-pending batches of 2013–14 and 2014–15, Prof. Halse said the contented had been resolved aft the University Grants Commission (UGC), the State government, and the Governor’s bureau permitted KSOU to grant degrees to candidates who had completed accepted (non-technical) courses. Accordingly, 30,515 candidates retired of 64,102 who appeared for the examinations from these batches are present eligible to person degrees, with a 47.60% walk rate.
These students had to hold for implicit a decennary to get the degrees owing to issues related to their admissions. A fewer students had moved the court, and KSOU had meetings with the UGC and the authorities connected the students’ fate.
Governor to be
The convocation volition beryllium presided implicit by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot astatine the KSOU convocation hallway astatine 11.30 a.m. Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar volition beryllium present, portion Union Minister of State for Education and Development of the North Eastern Region Sukanta Majumdar volition present the convocation address.
Honorary doctorates
KSOU volition confer honorary doctorates connected 8 personalities, including S. Shivakumar of Harsha Institutions, Bengaluru; Satish Kumar D. Kaggere, laminitis and caput of Kids International School, Tumakuru; Brahmakumari Lakshmi of Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Mysuru; K.B. Lingaraju of the Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Sanskrit student Bhashyam Swamy, laminitis of Sri Yoga Narasimhaswamy Temple; educationist Shivashankar Tokare; student B.S. Nagabhushana Atri; and retired bureaucrat C. Somashekar.
Prof. Halse said the honorary doctorates pertain to the world years for which the convocation is being conducted. Responding to queries connected the enactment process, helium said the Governor’s bureau had cleared 8 names from a sheet of 20, adding that the awardees were chosen for their notable contributions, peculiarly successful the tract of education.
Senior assemblage officials, including the registrar and registrar (evaluation) were contiguous astatine the property conference.
