Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest for Anna University’s 42 nd convocation to be held on July 29 at College of Engineering, Guindy campus.
He will be only the second Prime Minister to attend a convocation of the institution, a university official said.
On October 9, 1952, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru delivered the first convocation address at the Madras Institute of Technology, which was at that time an independent educational institution. MIT, formed in 1948, was merged with Anna University, when the latter was formed in 1978. The university currently admits over 1 lakh students annually, including in its affiliated colleges.
