NITK to Honour Doctorate to Its Alumnus Who Won Silver Medal at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games

NITK Surathkal will confer an honorary doctorate Suhas L Yathiraj, who won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games. Suhas will be awarded the degree during the 19th annual virtual convocation of the institute scheduled on November 6, Saturday. K Umamaheshwar Rao, director, NITK said that this is the first time in the 60-year history of the institution, that an honorary degree has been conferred. Suhas is a BTech in computer science from the 2004 batch and bagged the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in the men’s singles badminton SL4 event.