Over 4,500 conferred degrees by SASTRA

Trichy: Social sciences in science and technology research offer a multi-dimensional opportunity for the youthful research community to seek solutions for various problems, said Sandeep Verma, secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.

Delivering the 35th convocation address of SASTRA deemed university on Saturday through virtual mode from Delhi, Verma stressed on sustainable development goals and the need for human research capital to work on issues related to environment, mental health, energy and social development by breaking silos and achieve national development.

Over 4,500 students including 54 PhD graduands were conferred various degrees in UG, PG and PhD across multiple disciplines of Engineering, Sciences, Management, Law, Humanities and Education. The Lord Selvamuthukumaran Award for the best outgoing BTech engineering student was presented to ECE graduate Aishwarya Lakshmi who also bagged the Kamakoti award for overall excellence and silver jubilee batch best outgoing girl student. C B Thejaswini and B Deepasree were awarded Justice Patanjali Sastry Award and Nani Palkhivala Award (cash prize of Rs 1lakh each) for being the best outgoing BA, LLB (Hons) and BCom, LLB (Hons) graduates.

The founder-chancellor’s best doctoral thesis award was presented to Ramya Dhandapani in Engineering and P Muthukumar in Sciences. Besides these, over eight special awards were presented. The convocation, presided over by chancellor R Sethuraman, started and ended with the academic procession led by a nadhaswaram team with the vice-chancellor, deans, academic council members and graduands dressed in traditional attire.


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