The 9th Convocation of the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Bhopal was organised physically first time after covid19. Chairperson, Board of Governors declared the convocation open to confer degrees to Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PhD students.
Director, Prof Chandra Charu Tripathi welcomed Chief Guest, Durga Shankar Mishra, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh and former Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India and all dignitaries on the dais and off the dais. Director presented an annual report including the activities and achievements of SPA Bhopal since last year.
While the presentation of the annual report he stressed that the SPA is engaged in more than 40 Research and Consultancy projects and has collaboration (MoU) with several national and international institutes of high repute like UN-Habitat, GIZ (Germany), NITTTR Bhopal, NID Bhopal, IISER Bhopal, The Madhya Pradesh State Bamboo Mission, DG Research Cell Madhya Pradesh Police (DRC-MPPA), MSME Technology Center Bhopal, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis Bhopal, Rajiv Gandhi University Arunachal Pradesh, The University of Florence, NTNU Norway, CSIR-AMPRI etc.
He told that our students are treasured assets for the institute and have done them proud by participating and achieving at various national and international competitions in different extracurricular events for bringing laurels to the institute. He took this as an opportunity to congratulate and thank them for making the institute and country proud. Hailing from different geographies, students superbly displayed the unity in diversity of our country by celebrating festivals from all parts of India with profound affection and gaiety.
Respective HoDs presented recipients of degrees in their respective areas of specialization and Chief Guest, Durga Shankar Mishra awarded the degrees to the PhD and Post Graduate Students and 2 Medals of Excellence, 9 Proficiency Gold Medals, 1 Certificate for Proficiency, 9 Best Thesis Awards, and 2 Certificates of Appreciation for Thesis.
