Innovative start-up conferred gold at GTU convo

For the first time an innovative start-up also received a gold medal at the recently held Gujarat Technological University's 9th convocation was organised at

Mahatma Mandir

, Gandhinagar. Roshan Raval was confered this gold. At the convocation ceremony Devvrat Acharya, Gujarat governor; Amit Shah, Home Minister; Vijay Rupani, Gujarat Chief Minister;

Bhupendrasinh Chudasama

, Education Minister; Navin Sheth, VC, GTU and KN Kher, registrar were present.

While giving a speech to the convocating students Navin Sheth infomed that two new courses will be commencing from the upcoming academic year. Over and above this he also informed that nine short term courses will also commence and that about 18 national and international MoUs have been signed by GTU recently. The theme of the convocation was Dr Vikram Sarabhai's birth anniversary.

About 61,000 students convocated in various different courses during the 9th convocation, of which 173 students were conferred gold medals and 39 students were given the PhD degrees.