Dehradun, Sept. 6 -- IIT Roorkee Convocation 2025

Roorkee, 5 Sep: The 178-year old Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Asia's oldest engineering college established in 1847 celebrated its Convocation 2025 ceremony, today, conferring degrees on 2,614 students including 2012 males and 602 females.

Chief Guest Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Science and Technology, exhorted the students to be part of mission 2047 in making India a fully developed nation and the third largest economy in 2027. He stressed on innovative research in new domains of Biotechnology and not only traditional civil and mechanical streams of engineering.

Dr Jitendra Singh asserted that IIT-R students are a part of the ...