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PM to address the 57th Convocation Ceremony of IIT Delhi on 8th August
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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will attend the 57th Convocation Ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on 8 August 2026 as Chief Guest. He will address more than 3,000 graduating students, including 587 Ph.D. scholars, and will present the Institute’s top honours – President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and Perfect Ten Gold Medals – to meritorious students. In the same event, the Prime Minister will inaugurate ‘Param Pragya’, an AI‑powered high‑performance supercomputing facility at IIT Delhi’s Sonipat Campus, aimed at strengthening AI, data‑science and interdisciplinary research capabilities.