President Pranab Mukherjee to visit Punjab on May 2 for LPU convocation
Friday, April 28, 2017 IST
President Pranab Mukherjee will be on a one-day visit to Punjab on May 2, and be the chief guest at the 8th convocation of Lovely Professional University (LPU), Chaheru, in Phagwara sub-division of Kapurthala district. Punjab governor VP Singh Badnore will preside over the function.
It will be the President’s second visit to the LPU. He had visited the varsity in 2013, also in connection with its convocation.
A university release said the President will give gold medals to 38 students while 15,988 regular and distance learning students drawn from different parts of the country as well as 50 other countries will get degrees, diplomas and certificates.
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