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convocationHighest ever PhD awardees at IIT Kharagpur

Telegraph India (August 28, 2019)

IIT Kharagpur on Tuesday awarded the highest number of PhD degrees in history, director officiating Sriman Kumar Bhattacharya said.

"Today, we have conferred degrees on 372 PhD students, a substantial increase from last year's figure of 295," he said.

"This is the first time that so many students are getting PhD degrees from this institute."

Chemical scientist Man Mohan Sharma had urged the IIT at its 63rd convocation in 2017 to enroll more PhD students so that the institute emerged as a foremost research hub in the country.

Apart from the graduating students, the institute honoured 20 of its former students with distinguished alumnus awards. (Read More)