Overview

• At DDU Gorakhpur’s 44th convocation, Anandiben Patel said students should need 75% attendance across lectures, laboratories and libraries to sit examinations at government universities.
• She urged extending a minimum 75% attendance requirement across schools, colleges and universities, noting Uttar Pradesh already requires 75% attendance for Class 10 and 12 board-exam eligibility since 2017.
• Patel pressed for government-funded research to identify concrete social problems, deliver practical solutions and be forwarded to municipal and district authorities for implementation, citing an Ayodhya pollution study.
• As chancellor of state universities, she called for faster international collaborations, lecture exchanges and industry partnerships, and welcomed foreign students while urging improvements in NAAC, NIRF and global rankings.
• Reports described the stance as an official recommendation delivered at a convocation, with any enforcement dependent on universities and the state education department.