pune the bharati vidyapeeth deemed university bvu and the british council have signed a memorandum of understanding mou to carry out research in the field of sports in order to improve the standard of sports in india addressing a press conference on monday bvu vicechancellor shivaji kadam said we have received an initial grant of rs 40 lakh for a period of one year to kickstart the study the mou was signed last week and kadam said that the details of the research would be finalised with the british council in the coming days we will be able to speak on the focus of the study after that kadam said meanwhile over 6000 bvu students will receive their degrees diplomas and certificates at the 14th convocation ceremony of the university on friday as many as 29 gold medals will be awarded to toppers at the hands of the chief guest union minister of health and family welfare ghulam nabi azad kadam said 48 students would be given phd degrees at the convocation the university has 45 undergraduate and 108 postgraduate programmes in multiple disciplines the university plans to introduce the credit system at undergraduate level across 29 disciplines kadam said the university currently uses the system only at the postgraduate level he added that bvu has applied for a no objection certificate to the state government to start a superspecialty hospital and work on the project will begin in january he said rs 70 crore has been allotted for the firstphase of the hospital