Ninety toppers will be awarded with gold medals and cash prizes at the first convocation of Bengaluru City University that will be held on Monday. Honorary doctorates will also be conferred on V. Ravichandran (cinema), M.R. Jaishankar (social service) and Sathyanarayana (medicine).
Prof. Gandhi said that seven donors had each contributed ₹6 lakh, which has since been deposited. The university will be getting ₹30,000 as interest from each of the endowments, of which ₹20,000 will be given away as cash prize and ₹10,000 will be used for the gold medals. The varsity medals will originally be made of silver, which will be dipped in gold, he said.