Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the 57th Convocation Ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on August 8 in New Delhi as chief guest, according to reports from Free Press Journal and NDTV. The ceremony, set to begin at 11:00 a.m., marks the graduation of more than 3,000 students, including 587 doctoral scholars. During the event, Modi is set to address the graduating batch and confer the institute’s highest academic honours on meritorious students. Free Press Journal reports that these awards include the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, and Perfect Ten Gold Medals.

In addition to the convocation, Modi will inaugurate “Param Pragya,” an AI-powered high-performance computing facility at IIT Delhi’s Sonipat campus. The facility is described as an advanced computing infrastructure intended to support research in areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, high-performance computing, and interdisciplinary research, with the goal of expanding IIT Delhi’s advanced computing and AI research ecosystem.