chandigarh total 130 students were awarded graduate and postgraduate degrees at the 5th annual convocation of indian institute of technology ropar on mondayunion secretary for department of science and technology ashutosh sharma delivered the convocation address as the chief guest on the occasion the ceremony was presided over by director s k das and chairperson of board of governors of iit ropar lila poonawalla112 graduated as btech and 18 got phd degrees and four students also received special awards gaurav mittal of computer science and engineering received the presidents gold medal amogh agrawal electrical engineering received director gold medal while institute silver medals were received by nekkanti akhil mechanical engineering and amogh agrawal electrical engineering for their outstanding performance during the academic sessionssharma said establishment of new iits has been essential to leverage the demographic advantage to technologyled development and growth it has been really delightful to see iit ropar feature among the top engineering institutions in the country and he hope that it will continue to establish its mark by solving some of the complex challenges that leverage the best of global science for developing locally relevant technology solutions he saidone of the new iits iit ropar has bagged ninth position in the nirf rankings this year and has also proved to be excellent in teaching and research at an international level the director said iit ropar was recently awarded 5star in green buildings rating system india griha rating for the master plan of its upcoming campusdas said the campus was expanding and from its strength of 800 students it is going to grow to 2500 students within a span of 3 years with a number of new departments such as civil engineering chemical engineering biomedical engineering and material engineering coming up the institute is building a stateoftheart campus on the banks of the river satluj with emphasis on human resources it has increased its faculty strength by 50 in the last oneandahalf years and is going to maintain a ratio of 1 faculty member for every 10 students every year