The Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous) in Narendrapur will hold its convocation on March 6 but degree recipients have been asked not to bring guardians for the event to avoid crowding amid the Covid pandemic.

The ceremony will be held at an auditorium on the campus that can accommodate 950 students, an official of the college said.

“Around 140 outgoing undergraduate and postgraduate students will come to the campus to receive their degrees,” said Swami Shastrajnananda, the principal of the college.

Students who would not be able to attend the convocation will have to go to the campus later to collect their degree certificates in a staggered way.

The ceremony will be live streamed on digital platforms.

A notice signed by principal Swami Shastrajnananda says: “As Covid-19 precautionary measures, you will come to campus on the day of the ceremony and return after the event. There will be no on-campus accommodation facility this time around.”

At the Narendrapur institution, the college usually allows outgoing students to go to the campus days before the convocation, stay there and spend a few days on the campus post the ceremony.

As hostels have been shut because of the pandemic, this custom has been done away with, said an official said.

The degree recipients have been asked to fill up a Google form — https://forms.gle /qGJ7UJ9rVyKaeSaE6 — to confirm that they will attend the programme. The last date to submit the form is February 28.

The chief guest for the convocation will be Sangamithra Bandyopadhyay, the director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

“You are expected to follow the standard Covid-19 protocols — wearing of masks, carrying hand sanitiser, physical distancing and the rest,” the principal’s notice says.