Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend IIT Delhi’s 57th convocation at 11 AM on Saturday, August 8, to address 3,036 graduating students, among them 587 PhD scholars, and present the institute’s highest academic honours.
- The Prime Minister is scheduled to inaugurate Param Pragya, an AI‑powered high‑performance supercomputing facility at IIT Delhi’s Sonipat campus, although some institute remarks described the inauguration as taking place remotely.
- IIT Delhi used the convocation to announce new institutional partnerships and student programmes, including MoUs with 18 NITs, the ALIGN academic linkage, a placement mentorship scheme and a peer‑support initiative called 'Call for a Friend'.
- Param Pragya is described by officials as a state‑of‑the‑art computing cluster meant to give researchers large‑scale GPU and CPU capacity for machine learning, data analysis and compute‑intensive simulations that current campus systems cannot easily run.
- The ceremony doubles as a signal of policy priorities: officials link the investment to India’s broader push to strengthen university AI infrastructure, boost sponsored R&D (about ₹600 crore reported for 2025–26) and expand collaboration that could speed research, startups and technology transfer.