chhapra governorcumchancellor devanand konwar has now asked the jai prakash university jpu officials to drop the idea of providing apron and gandhi cap to the recipients of degree as advised earlier and to continue with the traditional system of gown and hood during the varsitys maiden convocation scheduled to be held on november 30 the chancellor on tuesday while approving the programme of the convocation said the change is very good but this must be followed uniformly in all the universities of the state said nand kumar singh inspector of colleges adding the chancellor has also expressed his desire that he will not read any prepared text during his speech rather speak extempore the earlier idea of cultural programme welcome song lighting of lamp during opening ceremony have also been dropped on the instruction of the chancellor although a helipad has been prepared for the landing of the helicopter of the chancellor on the university premises now the chancellor would land here through a state government plane which will land at chhapra air strip on friday and from there he will drive to the university campus through road the place of landing of plane and the venue were on wednesday inspected by saran dm vinay kumar sadar sdo and other officials of the district administration considering the security aspect of the governor jpu officials on wednesday made a mock drill of sitting arrangements and on thursday a rehearsal with gown is expectedgirls outnumber boys girls have outnumbered boys in claiming gold medals during the first ever convocation scheduled to be held on november 30 at rahul diksha gram located on the premises of the university according to university sources out of 17 postgradute subjects girls have topped in 11 subjects in the examination held in 2011 botany english history home science philosophy political science sanskrit urdu and zoology are the subjects where girls have topped the merit list out of 7 toppers only 12 would be awarded gold medals and rest 5 would be admitted to degrees in their absencia said prof ak jha convener of the convocation committee on wednesday jha further said that altogether 151 students have applied for convocation in which 53 are from science 86 from arts and 13 from commerce faculties including nine phd awardees