New Delhi, August 24: The executive council of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has proposed to name the School Of Management and Entrepreneurship as Atal Bihari Vajpayee School Of Management And Entrepreneurship said the Registrar of JNU.

News agency ANI reported about the proposal put forward by the executive council of JNU to honour the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who died on August 16. Professor Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar is the dean of School of Management & Entrepreneurship. Check the ANI tweet below:

Jawaharlal Nehru University, on August 8, organised its second convocation in history, almost 46 years after it organised its first.

More than 400 students, who successfully graduated between January 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, were conferred with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), the varsity said.

The chief guest of the convocation, Professor VK Saraswat, Chancellor of JNU and current member of the NITI Aayog, conferred the degrees, they added. The JNU Students' Union had appealed to the JNU community to boycott the convocation, accusing vice-chancellor Jagadesh Kumar of "muzzling their democratic rights".

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