Pantnagar, March 29 -- The Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology was established in 1960 and, since the year 1963, the university has been organising its convocation and has held 36 convocations till date.

On this occasion, all the colleges have been honouring their best/excellent academic students with the Vice Chancellor's Gold Medal and the names of these students are inscribed on the merit board of the respective colleges. The best students at the university level who excel in sports, debates and other cultural competitions along with education, were started to be honoured with the Chancellor's Gold Medal from the year 1971. So far, 52 students from different colleges have received this medal.

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