Today Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the Banaras Hindu University(BHU) campus on the occasion of the University's 90th convocation.He was awarded an honorary D Litt degree (Honoris causa) by the University for 'his contributions to the Indian society'.
BHU Chancellor Dr Karan Singh presented the degree to Mr.Singh. The university also conferred honorary D Litt degrees on well-known painter Satish Gujral and historian Irfan Habib on this occasion.
Dr. Manmohan Singh has an Undergraduate (1952) and a Master's degree (1954) from Panjab University, Chandigarh; an Undergraduate degree (1957) from Cambridge University (St. John's College) and a D.Phil (1962) from Oxford University (Nuffield College). The University of Oxford awarded him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in June 2005, and in October 2006, the University of Cambridge followed with the same honour.
In the convocation, 29 medals, 179 PhDs, 2,023 Post Graduate and 4,252 Bachelor degrees were distributed.
Today Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the Banaras Hindu University(BHU) campus on the occasion of the University's 90th convocation.He was awarded an honorary D Litt degree (Honoris causa) by the University for 'his contributions to the Indian society'.
