KANPUR, July 16 -- : The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur awarded degrees to 3,104 students at its 59th convocation on Wednesday. IN-SPACe chairman and Padma Shri awardee Dr Pawan Goenka urged the graduating students to accept failure, keep learning and contribute to building a developed India by 2047.

The graduating batch included 1,247 undergraduate students, 1,325 postgraduate students and 532 students from the institute's e-Masters programme. The convocation was presided over by acting chairman of the board of governors Jayant Patil and attended by IIT Kanpur director prof Manindra Agrawal.

Addressing the students, Goenka said life was "not a 100-metre race" but "a long engineering project" that involves repeated failures...