Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra would be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Literature (D.Litt) by SRM University. The Olympic gold medalist would be given also a cash award of Rs 5 lakh.

Bindra would receive the honorary degree at convocation of the university to be held on Sunday at the university auditorium. He would lay also the foundation stone for a sports academy and act as an advisor to it.