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CONVOCATION

29 JULY
The sixth Annual Convocation of the Indian Institute of Management
Visakhapatnam (IIMV) was held at the Hotel Novotel Varun Beach
on July 29, 2022. This year, 182 students graduated from various
flagship programs, and eight of them were awarded gold medals.

The degrees were conferred to 132 students from the Post-Graduate
Program in Management (PGP), 24 students from the Post-Graduate
Program in Management for Experienced Professionals (PGPEx), and
26 students from the Post-Graduate Program in Digital Governance
and Management (PGP-DGM). The event was held in the presence
of the chief guest Padma Bhushan Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman and

Managing Director of Medanta - the Medicity, Shri Hari S Bhartia,
Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIMV, Professor M Chandrasekhar,
Director, IIMV, Chair PGP Prof. PRS Sarma, Chair PGPEx Prof. Saroj
Kumar Pani, Chair PGP-DGM Prof. Neena Pandey, faculty members,
staff, and students.

Delivering the convocation address, the chief guest, Dr Naresh Trehan, urged the students to pursue their
passions and work hard to achieve them. “Once you begin your career, be humble and strive to improve
yourself every day,” he advised. In addition, he emphasised the importance of avoiding two destructive traits:
arrogance and greed. He also suggested students be vigilant about great opportunities that come their way,
as it is these unannounced opportunities that shape the career and life of an individual.

Toppers from each program were awarded gold medals in recognition of their academic performance. From
the PGP 2020-2022 batch, Ms. Pallavi Bansal received a gold medal for coming in first, Mr. VishnoSirohi for
coming in second, and Mr. Joga Venkata Sandeep received the gold medal under the best overall performance
category. Pallavi Bansal was also the winner of the Vani Row Memorial gold medal. In the PGPEx 2020-2022
batch, Ms. DivyaKuppilli received the gold medal for securing the first rank, and Mr. Palash Sharma received
the gold medal for securing the second rank. In the PGP-DGM 2019-2021 batch, Ms. Shena Aggarwal and

Mr. Pranav Upadhyay received the gold medal for securing the first and second rank, respectively.

Shri Hari S. Bhartia, Chairman of the Board of
Governors (BoG) of IIMV, congratulated the students
and their proud parents on this event. He praised the
institution and all its stakeholders for adapting to the

pandemic in order to maintain the institution’s high
academic standards. He advised the graduates to
embrace change rather than resist it. He encouraged
the graduating students to cultivate the virtue of
patience, as it would facilitate their future growth.
He also discussed the significance of Environmental,

Social, and Governance (ESG) and encouraged
everyone to contribute towards it.

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