LUCKNOW: Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh who is ex-officio Chancellor of state universities created a world record of kinds distributing more than 17 lakh degrees to students of the Rajasthan University and the associated colleges in a day on Tuesday.

Official spokesman of Raj Bhawan Jaipur informed the ToI that as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1991 Kalyan Singh had launched a crackdown on the powerful copying mafia in the state. In a similar campaign, Kalyan Singh as governor of Rajasthan and chancellor of the state universities noticed that degrees of the Rajasthan University and affiliated colleges had not been given to the students since 1990. Kalyan Singh had 39 meetings from the time he assumed office of Governor and interacted with officials of higher education department ordering them to distribute degrees to students.

A convocation function function was organised in Jaipur on Tuesday where Kalyan Singh distributed degrees to students and more than 17 laklh degrees have been put on the university’s website and 46 special centres have been opened in Rajasthan to collect degrees.

“It is a historic step in the field of higher education in the state and a world record,” declared Kalyan Singh, exhorting students to work hard and make a successful career. “A degree earned with foul means like copying is spurious and contaminated and it harms one’s career same way as it harms one’s health,” said Kalyan Singh.

