Kovind to grace annual convocation of MNNIT

Allahabad: President Ram Nath Kovind would be the chief guest at the 14th annual convocation of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) to be held here on Friday. Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would be the guest of honors, said Professor Rajeev Tripathi, Director MNNIT, while addressing the pre-convocation press meet today.

“MNNIT has created a coveted niche for itself in the field of education, research, industry-institute interface at large,” he said. In the last academic year, MNNIT had organized seven International Conferrences and 18 patents were filed, he added.

Professor Ramesh Tripathi, Dean Academics, said that around 655 recipients, including 875 BTech, 337 MTech, 90 MCA and 78 PhD scholars will receive the degrees in various disciplines at the convocation on December 15.