Jadavpur University announced on Wednesday that the distribution of “original final degree certificate for the year 2020” will be in-person as the university could not hold its convocation because of the pandemic.

The distribution of certificates will start on February 8 and continue till February 22.

The notice issued to all the departments under the three faculties — science, engineering and arts — mentions specific dates for each department for the distribution of certificates.

The certificates of those who will fail to collect them will be dispatched to their mailing addresses within India.

The university has yet to decide what it will do in respect to international students.

A total of 4,700 students (undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil and PhD put together) graduated last year. They could not be handed over the certificates as the university cancelled the convocation to avoid any assembly at the time of the pandemic.

Those who will come to the campus to collect their certificates have been asked to maintain “health precaution” and produce documents like original marksheet/final grade card, library clearance.

The distribution will take place on the campus between noon and 4pm.

A resolution adopted by JU’s executive council at a virtual meeting in mid-December had said: “Neither in physical mode is feasible... nor the university has the necessary infrastructure to organise the annual convocation on virtual mode for four thousand and seven hundred recipients”

The university had also uploaded digital versions of the degree certificates on the National Academic Depository, from where recipients downloaded them from December 24.