Amidst the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, an Indian University has created cartoon characters of its students for their virtual graduation.

The avatars of more than 2,000 students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay were awarded their certificates by an avatar of IIT director Subhasis Chaudhuri during a ceremony on Sunday.

The unique celebration, designed to abide by coronavirus safey measures, was broadcast on two local TV channels as well as YouTube and Facebook Live, according to a statement from the Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB).

"The Institute thought it best to arrange such a VR-convocation for the graduating students so as not to put their health at risk but at the same time, not deprive them of the sense of achievement and pride of passing out of India's premier engineering institute," reads the statement.

IIT is one of the most prestigious technical universities in India, known for producing Silicon Valley titans such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Students were also able "to roam around a virtual campus, visit their hostels and departments virtually, and bump into/meet their friends and faculty," said PIB.

Students also posted online about the experience.

"Honored to receive a Ph.D. degree at 58th Convocation @iitbombay. The Committee presented everyone with cool personalized avatar," wrote Deepank Verma alongside a GIF of his avatar receiving a diploma.

Duncan Haldane, joint winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics and a professor at Princeton University, US, was invited as chief guest at the ceremony, reports CNN


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I dedicate this to all those minds out there that are striving for success ...if I can actually achieve FTC on here then you can make it in life ,if u put your mind to it ..cause this is my greatest achievement this year ...kudos to the Indians though ......

Creativity

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Na wah for coronavirus oh!

One of them looks like buhari

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Hi

Very nice and innovative...

Funny and impressive

Shows a school were technology works

If the desirable is not available the available becomes the desirable

Wow. That would be fun.

Effects of the pandemic.

Most important thing is that they graduated las las.

WION

Them try

Thsee ones have gone.....our boiz areally busy using their skills to bomb en clone sites

Cool

Nice idea, God please heal d world

Asides the fact that Indians are a bunch of racist, dirty mfs..they are actually very talented tech wise

Makes sense

Honestly, this is people doesn't have anything bothering them unlike us in this country

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Lolz..its important to them, here in Nigeria, most people will not attend their own convocation or matriculation without any valid reasons.

Ehen This wan is mad oo



anyway this only happens in places where they know the value of education and life not like in nigeria that one aboki minister said they should close school till next year

This year is messed up. I can't believe it will be September by Tuesday. What a wasted year!

nice

Unlike the school of first choice and nation's pride that suspended its indefinitely

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Good initiative, Africans we have been sleeping for so long.

Ok nah,we still dey plan on how we go resume school,no room for portrait creativity