varanasi iitbhu organised its 11th convocation at bhus swatantrata bhawan on monday shloka negi a btech student of pharmaceutical engineering and technology showed her brilliance by getting a maximum 13 medals and prizes negi was also awarded the presidents gold medal for overall excellence in academics whereas ishita asthana a btech student in electronics engineering was awarded the directors gold medal for her outstanding allround performance and leadership qualities apart from this ashwin srivastava of electrical engineering bagged seven medals and awards aastha maurya of mechanical engineering five gold medals and one award piyush saran of electronics engineering four gold and two awards rajat kushwaha of civil engineering two gold and two awards and ashish kumar of computer science two gold one award also tejasvita som of chemical engineering aditya chandra of ceramic engineering akanksha rajput of industrial chemistry ajay modi of pharmaceutical engineering diksha garg of mechanical engineering and ishwari p shingvekar of civil engineering got two gold medalsa total of 1497 graduates were awarded degrees in various courses at the 11th convocation in which 791 btech 271 idd 299 mtechmpharm and 42 msc students were awarded various degrees and 94 research scholars were awarded doctoral degreeschancellor of jawaharlal nehru university and member of niti aayog vijay kumar saraswat and iitbhu director prof pramod kumar jain honoured the students with medals and awards the convocation was also attended by chairman of the board of governors padma shri kota harinarayan the dean of academic affairs prof shyam bihari dwivedi and the registrar incharge rajan srivastavaas many as seven alumni were also awarded the distinguished alumnusalumni award 202223 on the occasion these included prof bir bhanu in the area of academics raj yavatkar was awarded for achievements in the field of research innovation ajit singh and deepak ahuja were awarded for industryentrepreneurship ramesh shrinivasan was awarded for profession deep manoj jariwala was awarded young alumnus achiever award and rn tripathi was awarded for distinguished service to the institute