PATNA, March 27 -- President Droupadi Murmu will be the chief guest at the second convocation of Nalanda University in Rajgir on March 31. The President is also the Visitor of the (NU) and it will be her first visit to the institution.

Set up in 2014 through an Act of Parliament passed in 2010 after years of hard work piloted by the Nitish Kumar government and involving the likes of former President APJ Abdul Kalam in preparing the ground work, NU had held its first convocation in 2016 for the first batch of its post-graduate students. The then President Pranab Mukherjee was the chief guest on the occasion.

However, the 2026 convocation will be the first on its own sprawling campus, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...