Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at IIT Delhi’s 57th convocation, scheduled for Saturday, where more than 3,000 students will receive degrees including 587 PhD scholars.
- During the ceremony the prime minister will present the institute’s top academic honours, including the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and the Perfect Ten Gold Medals.
- Modi will formally inaugurate Param Pragya, an AI‑powered high‑performance supercomputing facility established at IIT Delhi’s Sonipat campus that is built to support large‑scale machine learning, data‑science and computational research.
- Officials say Param Pragya is expected to significantly expand IIT Delhi’s capacity for compute‑intensive projects by giving students and researchers access to advanced processors, greater memory and fast interconnects for interdisciplinary work.
- The convocation will include senior dignitaries such as the President and the Union education minister, and the inauguration is being framed as part of the Centre’s broader effort to grow indigenous AI and HPC infrastructure and link universities to national research priorities.