Oct 31 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)

IIT Delhi will award 178 PhD degrees

New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





IIT Delhi will hold its 45th convocation on November 1, at which 178 PhD, 935 postgraduate and 729 graduate degrees will be awarded. Physicist and Nobel Prize winner George F Smoot will deliver the convocation address.IIT Delhi director R K Shevgaonkar said that MHRD has asked the institute to coordinate for the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. IIT-Delhi will collaborate with the other IITs, NITs, other technical institutions and NGOs for rural development. “Each IIT will adopt 10 villages in the neighbourhood and suggest financially viable technological solutions to problems of sanitation, water, energy and housing,“ he said.IIT-Delhi has already helped set up micro-enterprises in a village in Jodhpur.
While the number of PhDs being awarded over the last three years has declined marginally , IIT authorities promise that the number will be more than double in two years.