Over 1,000 students graduate from YCCE

NAGPUR: “You need to make a contribution towards society and country as much as you need to earn a livelihood on the basis of your qualifications,” said state education minister Vinod Tawde during his address to over 1,000 engineering students who graduated this year from

Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering

(

YCCE

), Hingna.

The convocation ceremony was held at the college’s

Shri Datta Meghe

auditorium on Friday. Nagpur University’s vice chancellor SV Kane, the college’s chairman

Datta Meghe

and principal Uday Waghe were present on the dais.

This was the third time the college was organizing a graduation ceremony. A 992 students, pursing undergraduate programmes, and 223 students of postgraduate programmes graduated on Friday. 32 students, who topped overall as well as in their respective branches, were conferred with gold, silver and bronze medals.

Akanksha Tyagi, graduated in information technology, was not only the topper in her branch but also the graduating batch. She was awarded a gold and two citations for her efforts. Pooja Jaiswal from electronics and telecommunications branch, and Shraddha Kathalkar from environmental engineering branch also received a gold each for topping all branches of engineering. Ashwim Sahu was awarded a citation for the most outstanding student of the BE batch.