Hidayatullah National Law University Conducts Fourth Convocation Virtually On Jan 10th, 2021
HNLU, Raipur conducted its Fourth Convocation on Sunday, 10th January, 2021 conferring degrees to nearly a thousand students from the batches of 2015-2019.
In this much-awaited Convocation, two research scholars were awarded Ph.D., while 223 and 750 students got LL. M. and B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) degrees respectively. It was also an occasion to recognize and reward the academic achievements of the students by awarding them the gold medals. There were 61 gold medal recipients on the occasion from across the batches of 2015 to 2019. Most of the gold medals were awarded to the Girl students.
The Convocation had Hon'ble Shri Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the Chief Justice of India & Visitor of the University, who delivered a special address on the occasion and Shri Bhupesh Baghel, Hon'ble Chief Minister of the State of Chhattisgarh, delivering the Convocation address. Hon'ble Shri Justice P. R. Ramachandra Menon, the Chief Justice, High Court of Chhattisgarh & Chancellor of the University conferred the degrees to the graduates.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. (Dr.) V.C. Vivekanandan welcomed the gathering and presented the University Report highlighting the salient features and past achievements of the students and University as well as rolling out the plans on the anvil and future visions.
The Chancellor conferred the degrees to the students at the proposal of the Vice-Chancellor. The Registrar (I/c), Dr. Deepak Kumar Srivastava announced the names of the Gold Medal awardees and presented the names of the students.
Justice Menon, in his address, urged the students to maintain a high level of professional ethics in their future career as well as on a personal note underlined the importance of constant learning from all corners of life. The Chief Justice of India and Visitor of the University, Justice Shri Sharad Arvind Bobde, recalled the contribution of Justice Hidayatullah and exhorted the degree recipients to learn from the life of this great legal maven. He also stressed the need to uphold and help uphold the constitutional values in any and every situation.
Shri Bhupesh Baghel, the Hon'ble Chief Minister called HNLU the pride of Chhattisgarh and expressed his satisfaction with the performance of the University and congratulated the graduating students and wished further greater success for the students as well as the University.
The event came to its conclusion after the formal announcement of the dissolution of the Convocation.
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