Degree of Disinterest
By Yogesh Avasthi | Apr 6, 2017, (Ahmedabad Mirror pg one) http://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/cover-story/degree-of-disinterest/articleshow/58054458.cms Gone are the days when students would eagerly await a convocation ceremony to collect degree certificates or check their mailboxes for the document. More than 22,000 unclaimed degree certificates have piled up over the past five years on Gujarat University’s desks as the graduates have not bothered to collect them yet. These include certificates of external students who either failed to collect their documents at the convocation or requested their degrees be sent by post but provided incomplete or inaccurate addresses. Varsity officials said 3.5 lakh students enrol in Gujarat University every year. “More than 50,000 degrees are awarded in the two convocations organised by the GU every year. But nearly 40 per cent (or around 20,000) students do not turn up at either event,” said a varsity official, requesting anon