The syndicate body of the Rani Channamma University (RCU) has declined to recommend any person to confer the honorary doctorate degrees on the occasion of the university’s third annual convocation this year.
Though names of 10 prominent persons from different fields were placed before the syndicate, they decided not to consider the names for the Honoris Causa.
No honorary doctorate degrees would be conferred upon anyone in the convocation this year, said Dasharath R. Albal, acting Vice-Chancellor of the university here on Friday.
The convocation is scheduled to be held at the auditorium of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) at 11.30 a.m. on May 20.
The former Chief Justice of High Court, Kerala, V.S. Malimath, will deliver the convocation address.
Governor and Chancellor of State universities Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala will preside over the programme and Minister for Higher Education and Tourism R.V. Deshpande will attend.
Gold medals
Mr. Albal said that eight first rank holders in undergraduate courses and 20 students from post-graduate courses had won a gold medal each.
Yallappa D. Kolakar of Government First Grade College in Gokak, and Rutuja Kittur of KLS Gogte College of Commerce in Belagavi, have won three gold medals each in undergraduate courses.
He said a total of 19,693 undergraduate, 1,544 post-graduate and four doctorate degrees would be conferred upon the successful candidates at the convocation.
