Overview

• Anandiben Patel announced that students must have at least 75% attendance in lectures, laboratories and libraries to be eligible to sit for examinations at government universities.
• The announcement came during the 44th convocation of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, where she presided in her capacity as chancellor of state universities.
• She urged universities to ensure research leads to practical solutions implemented by local bodies and government agencies, citing examples such as pollution studies informing action.
• Patel pressed for accelerated collaboration under foreign university agreements, with a focus on quality benchmarks like NAAC and NIRF to attract international students.
• Raj Bhavan recorded 161 medals and 301 PhD degrees conferred, IIT Kanpur professor Ashutosh Sharma received an honorary D.Sc., and the VC reported over 73,000 graduates with 68.53% women, nearly ₹200 crore saved via the Samarth Portal, and 34 foreign students.