The IIS University holds its 5 th Convocation

Over 1500 students awarded degrees on 5 th Convocation of The IIS University

D. Litt (Honoris Causa) conferred on Mr. John Germ, Rotary International, President.

Innovation is the need of the hour: Dr. Devi Shetty

Out of six areas in Rotary, education is utmost important: Shri John F Germ

The IIS University hosted its fifth convocation on Tuesday at the university premises. The Chancellor of the University Justice S. N. Bhargava presided over the function, while Padma Bhushan Dr. Devi Shetty, Chariman & Founder, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore was the chief guest on the occasion.

About 1545 students are conferred their degrees and diplomas in the various programmes out of which there are 43 Ph.D., 436 Post graduation, 1033 Under graduation & 29 Advanced Diploma & PG Diploma level graduands. Also, 56 Gold Medals and Plaques, 14 Endowment Awards and 248 Merit Certificates are awarded to meritorious graduands.

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters conferred on Mr. John Germ, Rotary International, President.

This ceremony holds special for many reasons. Apart from the joy of a graduation ceremony, the University feels honoured and privileged to confer Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters on Mr. John Germ for his substantial, sustained and exceptional contributions in the field of Community Service.

Mr. Germ is a champion of human rights and an engaged humanitarian who has worked with imagination and insight to move the World in the direction of progress and peace, to build new possibilities and bring people together around a shared sense of purpose.

The convocation ceremony witnessed many renowned Rotarians in attendance including Mr. Manoj Desai, Rotary International, Director.

With the permission of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor of the University Dr. Ashok Gupta declared the convocation open and welcomed the chief guest, dignitaries, Rotarians, guests and graduants present in the convocation hall. Later, he delivered the welcome speech and apprised the audience with the highlights of The IIS University.

In the welcome speech, Dr. Gupta talked about the journey which began in 1995 as the International College for Girls and within a short span of time it crossed many significant milestones in its endeavors towards excellence in higher education when it was conferred the status of Deemed to be university in 2009.

Dr. Gupta welcomes graduands

“The values you learnt in IISU– of hard work, of serving others with honesty and diligence, with humility and integrity, should enable you to notice a world beyond yourself. Put these values into practice by serving the less fortunate members of society. Through service you will find a citizenship that is meaningful, a citizenship that is dignified,” while congratulating students on their success, Dr. Gupta has said.

He also motivated the students by saying that the future is not a result of choices amongst alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made.

World requires love and tolerance: Dr. Shetty
The Chief Guest on the occasion, Dr. Devi Shetty while delivering convocation address has said that this University is primarily a women’s university is a matter of great personal significance to him. One person whose life and work have tremendously influenced the mission of his life was a woman - Mother Teresa. He was first introduced to her as her doctor way back in 1984, when she had had a heart attack and he looked after Mother Teresa for the last five years of her life.

While sharing his experience on how Mother Teresa influenced him, “Mother strongly believed that love is the most powerful weapon, which can actually conquer the world and that teaching has impacted me tremendously and I truly believe that the entire world must believe that, because if there is something the world requires today it is love and tolerance.” he said.

Innovation is the need of the hour: Dr. Devi Shetty
While sharing his experience in introducing health insurance scheme for farmers in Karnataka with a monthly premium of just five rupees a month, he said that innovation is the need of the hour. Dr. Shetty was confident enough to say that if we apply our minds with seriousness, solutions are not difficult to find.

Out of six areas in Rotary, education is utmost important: Shri John F Germ
After receiving Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Shri John F Germ, RI President has said that they have six areas of focus in their Rotary service. And he couldn’t pick one of them that’s most important, because each one is built on the others. Water, sanitation, education, health, peace, and economic development are all woven together too tightly to unravel. But if you’re looking toward the future, and you’re planning for the long term—which is what Rotarians do—then he doesn’t think there’s any question, that the most important of those areas would be education.

56 scholars walked away with gold medals out of which 15 were from Arts and Social Sciences, 18 from commerce and management, 17 were from Science and 6 from Advanced Diploma Courses.

Apart from this,14 scholars have received endowment awards for their excellence in academic activities out of which Noor Shah from Arts and Social Sciences, Karishma Chopra from Commerce and Management and Anjali Jain from Science bagged Shiv Saraswati Memorial Gold Medal, Noor Shah
(BJMC) and Vaidahi Singh (MA JMC) received Dr. Shanta Narendra Bhanawat Memorial Gold Medal, Kritika Bhatia (Economics Hon.) awarded with K.M. Sahai Memorial Gold Medal, Shreya Choudhary (M.Com) got Pawan Bansal Memorial Gold Medal, Neha Badhala (Chemistry UG) received Prem Chand Bakshi Memorial Gold Medal, Priyanka Priya (BVA) and Aishwarya Naruka (MVA) bagged Radhey Shyam Badhalia Memorial Gold Medal, Neha Badhala (Highest Marks in UG Physics, Maths) got Ram Pyari-Surji Memorial Gold Medal and J.P. Gupta Memorial Gold Medal, Hukam Kaur-Nand Ram Memorial Gold Medal was received by Sakshi Saini (M.sc. Physics) and Vaishali Rathore (ABM UG) bagged O.P Bansal Memorial Gold Medal.

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