Industry-Academia interaction, exchange of MOUs and lectures by eminent persons at Rashtrapati Bhawan today
Updated: Nov 04, 2015 10:43:43am
New Delhi, Nov 4 (KNN) The first ever Visitors Conference is being held today at Rashtrapati Bhavan with an interactive session between Industry and Academia, exchange of 44 MOUs and lectures by eminent persons.
Participants in the interactive session will include Sumit Mazumder, President, CII; Shobana Kamineni, Vice President CII; SK Sopory, Vice Chancellor, JNU; Devang V. Khakhar, Director, IIT-Bombay and Swapan Bhattacharya, Director, NITK-Surathkal.
Lectures will be delivered by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Bharat Ratna CNR Rao and India's foremost agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan.
44 MoUs for cooperation will be exchanged between Industry and Academia in the presence of the President.
The President has in the past three years, convened annual conferences of Central Universities, NITs, IITs, and other institutions. These have been merged into a single three day ‘Visitor’s Conference’ this year to create synergy amongst all central institutions of higher learning.
The agenda for the three day Conference includes (a) improving the quality of higher education in institutions to bring them at par with the top institutions of the world; (b) capacity development of faculty; (c) engagement of institutes of higher learning with community and society for sustainable and inclusive development and (d) promotion of gender equity and cultural inclusion through higher education.
Participants in the conference include all heads of Central Universities, IITs, NITs, IISc, Bangalore, IISERs, IIITs, NIPERs, NIFT, IIEST, Shibpur, RGIPT, Rae Bareli, RGNIYD, Sreperumbudur and School of Planing and Architecture Bhopal and New Delhi. (KNN Bureau)
Participants in the interactive session will include Sumit Mazumder, President, CII; Shobana Kamineni, Vice President CII; SK Sopory, Vice Chancellor, JNU; Devang V. Khakhar, Director, IIT-Bombay and Swapan Bhattacharya, Director, NITK-Surathkal.
Lectures will be delivered by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Bharat Ratna CNR Rao and India's foremost agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan.
44 MoUs for cooperation will be exchanged between Industry and Academia in the presence of the President.
The President has in the past three years, convened annual conferences of Central Universities, NITs, IITs, and other institutions. These have been merged into a single three day ‘Visitor’s Conference’ this year to create synergy amongst all central institutions of higher learning.
The agenda for the three day Conference includes (a) improving the quality of higher education in institutions to bring them at par with the top institutions of the world; (b) capacity development of faculty; (c) engagement of institutes of higher learning with community and society for sustainable and inclusive development and (d) promotion of gender equity and cultural inclusion through higher education.
Participants in the conference include all heads of Central Universities, IITs, NITs, IISc, Bangalore, IISERs, IIITs, NIPERs, NIFT, IIEST, Shibpur, RGIPT, Rae Bareli, RGNIYD, Sreperumbudur and School of Planing and Architecture Bhopal and New Delhi. (KNN Bureau)
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