Mysuru: In a meeting 101 of the University of Mysore (UOM), which will be held on Tuesday, Chitra Narayan Hegde will be respected with 20 gold medals and four cash prizes.
He has secured the highest number of medals at this year’s university.
On Sunday, Uom Vice-Chancellor G Hemanth Kumar announced a list of students who will be awarded the gold medal and cash prize during the meeting.
Madalambika T Sanok 10 Gold Medals and 4 Cash Prizes at Ma Kannada, and Sindhu Nagaraj won 7 gold medals and seven cash prizes in BA courses, and will share honor for the second highest number of awards.
At the Faculty of Law, Deche M Mercy, a student from Kenya, has secured 2 gold medals and 3 cash prizes.
He was the only international student who secured a gold medal in this edition of the conference.
VC Hemantha Kumar said that the total number of gold medals and cash prizes to be given at the meeting was 565.
They will be awarded 216 candidates from five faculties.
Among them, 172 were women and 44 were men.
“The majority of students who graduate in the ceremony are women,” he said.
“When we study at the university, there are very few number of female students, but today girls get a part of the lion in reception and achievement,” he said.
The gold medal will be made of silver coated with gold.
Padma Bhushan Govindarajan Padmanabhan, Professor of Honor, Indian Science Institute, Bengaluru, and Prashanth Prakash, Chair, Group Vision for Startups, from the Government of Karnataka, will be given to the honorary doctor.
Hemantha Kumar told that Governor Tharawar Chand Gehlot will lead the event.
Secretary Shekhar C Mande, Dsir, and Director General of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council, will provide a convocation address.
According to the authorities, the meeting should be held in April, was postponed because of the prevailing Covid-19 situation.
In total, 29,852 candidates will be given to different degrees.
Among them, 20,118 (67.39%) are women.
Among the 244 candidates who will be given by PhD, 98 (40.16%) are women.
“Because of various factors including family responsibilities, women register in less amounts for PhDs,” said Hemantha Kumar.