Chandigarh, April 22 -- Panjab University (PU) has announced a competition to design the academic costume for the upcoming annual convocation. This comes as the varsity had failed to adopt traditional Indian attire for the last two convocations.

The notice for the competition has been issued by the PU registrar and chairperson of the committee formed for changing the attire. Different costumes have to be made for both males and females for undergraduate toppers, post graduate toppers, PhD degree awardees, the syndics, senators and fellows.

Designs can be submitted through e-mail at regr@pu.ac.in on or before May 20 till 5.00 pm.

This year, the 71st annual convocation was held on March 7. In a previous senate meeting held to approve Hon...