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On Tuesday, the ramparts of the Senate Hall successful University of Madras buzzed with energy. The assemblage set played, portion NCC cadets marched to the beat. They were rehearsing the forthcoming convocation of the assemblage connected Thursday.
The teaching and non-teaching unit looked engaged readying the rundown of events, opening from the accomplishment of the chancellor and the main guest, to their departure.
The past convocation (166th) was held successful September 2024, which was delayed owed to respective procedural constraints owed to the lack of a Vice Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor’s station continues to stay vacant pursuing an ongoing tussle betwixt the Governor and the State authorities delaying the convocation by implicit a year.
The University has invited K. Sivathanu Pillai, erstwhile CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace, to beryllium the main impermanent for the convocation. The Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, has consented to enactment arsenic well.
Students nether the regular people who person passed exams successful April 2024 and April 2025 and those nether the Institute of Distance Education who person cleared exams successful April 2024 and November 2024 volition beryllium conferred degrees during this convocation, assemblage officials said.
As galore arsenic 950 PhD candidates, 188 prize and medal winners, and 182 fertile holders volition beryllium felicitated astatine the convocation by the dignitaries. In total, 1.8 lakh undergraduate and postgraduate students dispersed crossed affiliated colleges volition gain their degrees during this convocation, but their degrees volition beryllium distributed to them astatine the convocations of their respective colleges, said Rita John, Registrar.
The convocation volition beryllium held astatine 10.30 a.m. connected January 22, 2026 astatine the Senate House.
