Jadavpur University will hold its annual convocation on December 24 but the special convocation that is held the same day to award DLitt and DSc (honorary) certificates will not be held, said a JU official.
JU has decided against holding the special convocation because a stalemate over awarding the DLitt and DSc certificates has remained unresolved since December 2019, when Jagdeep Dhankhar was the chancellor in his capacity as West Bengal governor.
On December 21, 2019, Dhankhar had called up JU vice-chancellor Suranjan Das and asked him to return the certificates he had signed as he was dissatisfied over the decision to defer the special convocation without his consent, the official said. Calls to Das went unanswered.
Pro-VC Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya said: “This year we will only hold the annual convocation.”
