Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the 57th convocation ceremony of IIT Delhi tomorrow, bringing together thousands of graduating students at one of India's leading institutions for higher education and research.
The ceremony will combine academic recognition with the unveiling of new research infrastructure aimed at strengthening IIT Delhi's capabilities in artificial intelligence, data science and advanced computing.
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PM Modi will address the 57th IIT Delhi Convocation on August 8.
More than 3,000 students, including 587 Ph.D. scholars, are graduating.
Param Pragya, an AI-powered high-performance computing facility, will be remotely inaugurated.
IIT Delhi has signed MoUs with 18 NITs for academic and research collaboration.
The institute has 88 active international MoUs across 30 countries.
More than 3,000 graduating students, including undergraduate and postgraduate students and 587 Ph.D. scholars, are expected to participate in the convocation.
According to IIT Delhi Director Rangan Banerjee, Prime Minister Modi will present the institute's prestigious awards, including the President's Gold Medal, Director's Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and Perfect Ten Gold Medals to meritorious students.
A major technology highlight of the event will be the remote inauguration of Param Pragya, an AI-powered high-performance supercomputing facility established at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus.
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Why This Matters
The event goes beyond a conventional convocation. The simultaneous focus on AI infrastructure, supercomputing, national institutional collaboration and international research partnerships highlights how India's premier technical institutions are expanding their role from education and degree programmes towards advanced research and technology development. Param Pragya could particularly strengthen computational capacity for research-intensive fields where AI and high-performance computing are increasingly important.
The facility is expected to strengthen research capabilities in AI, data science, advanced computing and interdisciplinary research.
IIT Delhi has also expanded its academic collaboration network through MoUs with 18 National Institutes of Technology (NITs). The collaboration is expected to provide students and faculty with opportunities for academic exchange, joint research, shared research infrastructure and faculty development.
The institute currently has 88 active international MoUs across 30 countries, according to the information shared by the IIT Delhi director.
IIT Delhi's 57th convocation is set to combine academic achievement with a larger technology push — bringing together AI infrastructure, supercomputing, national research partnerships and international academic collaboration.
