Chaos reigned supreme when 44,000 students turned up tocollect degree certificates on the 106th Convocation Day of the University of Pune (UoP) last Saturday.

This year, UoP had sent invites to 58,600 students from over 600 affiliated colleges through SMSes and email. However, never in their wildest dreams had they expected so many of them to make it to the event. UoP Vice-Chancellor Dr W N Gade admitted that he had not expected such a huge response. There are 10 faculties taught in colleges affiliated to the University of Pune.