Bhubaneswar: More than 4,000 students of nine different institutions of the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here were presented their degrees in separate graduation ceremonies held over the last three weeks.
The last graduation ceremony of the SOA National Institute of Law (SNIL) was held on Wednesday which was graced by Vice-Chancellor Pradipta Kumar Nanda and other senior officials.
The programme was also attended by Pro-Vice Chancellor Anup Kumar Samantaray, Controller of Examination Manjula Das, Dean of SNIL SAK Azad, Dean (Students’ Welfare) Jyoti Ranjan Das, senior professors and faculty members.
Earlier, the graduation ceremonies of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital (IMS & SUM), Institute of Dental Sciences (IDS), Institute of Business and Computer Studies (IBCS), Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), School of Hotel Management (SHM), SUM Nursing College (SNC) and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPS) were held separately.
Vice-Chancellor of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, P K Roul, attended as chief guest in the graduation ceremony of IAS, while Group Head of Wipro Limited Thirunavukkarasu Palaniappan, Director, Technology and Transformation, Engineering, AI and Data, Deloitte South Asia, Bhubaneswar, Vikash Panigrahi, Vice-President, Centre Head, Cognizant, Bhubaneswar, Satish Pradhan, Global Head, Engineering Academy at L and T Technology Services, P B Kotur graced the graduation ceremony of ITER held over two days.
In the graduation ceremony of IBCS and SHM held on a single day, Chandi Prasad Nanda, Director of Odisha Research Centre and Ashirbad Praharaj, Cluster General Manager of The Indian Hotels Company Ltd, attended as special guests.
Principal of Government Nursing College, Berhampur, Rajalaxmi Mishra, was the special guest in the graduation ceremony of SNC.
Neeta Mohanty, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prasenjit Mohanty, Pro-Vice Chancellor, P K Patra, Pro-Vice Chancellor, PSanghamitra Mishra, Dean, IMS & SUM Hospital, P K Sahu, Dean, ITER, Dhirendranath Thatoi, Additional Dean (Academic), Renu Sharma, Addl Dean (Student Affairs) ITER, Santosh Kumar Rout, Dean, IAS, Ayasa Kanta Mohanty, Dean, IBCS, Susanta Ranjan Chaini, Dean, SHM, Debajyoti Das, Dean, SPS, Sasmita Das, Dean, SNC, Pravati Tripathy, Director, SNC and Ruchi Bhuyan, Dean, IDS were present in different graduation ceremonies.
