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KSOU vice-chancellor D Shivalingaiah on Thursday said that the inauguration of the new convocation building by the governor was tentatively scheduled for December.The convocation will be held for students who graduated in 2012-13. Mysuru: In what is likely to signal a return to normalcy on the once forlorn campus, Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) is set to organise its first convocation ceremony in seven years in February or March 2019. It is our duty.”Refuting allegations of the varsity not having implemented former chief secretary K Ratna Prabha-headed committee’s report on KSOU, Shivalingaiah said, “The committee made two recommendations. Entrance tests have been made mandatory for BEd and MBA courses.“In October, five new courses – MA (Urdu), MSc (bio-technology), MSc (bio-chemistry ), MSc (information science) and MLib courses received fewer than 20 applications. The online correspondence system has been introduced for both teaching and non-teaching staff.”KSOU is all set to roll out PhD programmes too, he said..