The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi held its 57th Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance as the chief guest.
The Prime Minister presented the institute's most prestigious honours, including the President's Gold Medal, Director's Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, and Perfect Ten Gold Medals, to meritorious students graduating this year.
As part of the visit, PM Modi also inaugurated Param Pragya, an AI-powered high-performance supercomputing facility set up at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus.
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Harish Salve, Chairperson of IIT Delhi's Board of Governors, and Institute Director Prof Rangan Banerjee felicitated PM Modi and Union Minister Prahlad Joshi at the ceremony.
Addressing the gathering, PM Modi said the day marked the beginning of a new journey for the country's talented youth, and that the graduating students were currently living through a truly memorable moment in their lives. He said being part of an occasion filled with such enthusiasm, zeal, dreams, and emotions, and visiting the IIT Delhi campus to share the experience with the students, was very special for him as well.
