Participants were highly delighted to have such an opportunity to learn and add new set of skills and competencies so as to develop and enrich their capabilities as a successful  professionals and to contribute the best possible to the students and hence the learning environment was highly interactive and resulted in  deep routed team cohesiveness among the participants.

Initially to get connected with the participants, an ice breaking session was conducted to get affiliated with each other by introducing each other with sharing their feelings and disclosure of strengths and weaknesses so as to predict personality traits of the participants.

The training was a mix of both the slide show coupled with some interesting activities to sensitize the staff members for giving effective and quality service in general and making their interactions with students more polite, clear and result oriented.

An activity on Non-Verbal Communication (Guess Who?) was conducted among the participants to make them understand and demonstrate the importance of Body Language, Gestures and Facial Expressions in the process of effective communication.  Participants were over whelmed with the outputs and experiences they had during the game. Again this was followed by Role Plays covering the situations from their day to day work routine in which all the members actively participated and understood the importance of professional etiquettes and how this can increase our efficiency and effectiveness at work place.

Prof. Yachna Malhotra offered thanks to all participants for their patient listening and active participation during the session. The essential arrangements and hospitality hosted by Manager Admissions was praise worthy.

Dr. Surendra Tiwari  attended National Conference and presented his paper on “New gateways in Financial services through Blockchain”.  Conference was intended to take stock of recent advances and development of knowledge bases and also the disruptions caused by latest advancements at the globally competitive environment that will decide the future directions to young researchers and practitioners.

Objective of conference was to help in sharing of experience and exchange of ideas, which will also foster National Collaboration. The Conference was of immense benefit to Researchers, Academicians, Industry and Participants from Technical Institutes, R&D organizations, Management and students working in the field of Management, Engineering, Law and Education.

Conference witnessed large number of academicians and professionals in the field of management along with their research papers.

at AKTU, Sector 62, Noida Campus. The workshop focused upon creating awareness of IPR among faculty and Ph.D Scholars of AKTU and provide some important information on IPR and filing of patents. AKTU has its IPR policy and would like to facilitate Patent filing for the faculty and students of AKTU. Experts having expertise in IPR were the resource persons for this IPR workshop. The experts were Dr. K.S. Kardam ,former Sr. Joint controller of patents & Design (Patent office New Delhi), Mr. Yashwant , Patent Controller, Tifac. The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Dutta, Dean R & D AKTU. The resource persons further gave a deep insight about the benefits, process and sources for filing the patents. Overall It was a good learning from the workshop.

The event started with the welcome address by Mr. Neotia, President, AIMA mentioned about increasing global share and global trade governance. Mr. Sanjeev Goenka, Past President, AIMA and Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group mentioned about efficiency and innovation in Birla group which has multiplied Birla group by 25 times.Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group mentioned about global uncertainty and he talked about the longerterm view for India to become world’s largest economy.
He mentioned unique Indian way of globalisation covered that bilateral trade between China and USA will be closer.

Mr.Singhania mentioned India as pool of young talent and entrepreneurs. India need to find local solutions to local problems. Mr. Sanjeev Goenka introduced Mr.Amit Shah, Hon. Home Minister, Government of India talked about iron man Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel towards the sovereignty of India. He talked about multiparty parliamentary system in 2014.  He mentioned that growth in agricultural and industrial has been taken hand in hand. Mr.Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice; Communications; Electronics and IT, Government of India mentioned that if India want to emerge there has to be emphasized on reform, perform in order to transform.
In Next session Pranjal Sharma being the session moderator asked the purpose of AI and Mr. Amod Malviya explained AI as a medium to give personalised access to intelligence. Mr. Sandipan mentioned AI as logical programmingand further ad technological astrology. Amod referred AI as GPT(general purpose technology). Mr. Amod updated that UDDAN is a B2B company, where they deal in fraud detection, forecasting demand, logistics network design, on real time basis. Mr. Rishab talked about identifying skills through AI.

Panel Discussion Economic Reforms for New India was graced by the presence of Sudhir Jalan Chairman, Neo Foods Pvt. Ltd. Panelists Vikram Singh Mehta Chairman, Brookings India & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Ajit Ranade Group Executive President and Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group Akhil Bansal Deputy CEO, KPMG in India TN Ninan Chairman, Business Standard Pvt Limited. In this session major points discussed were measures to boost GDP, support to SME and ease of business to SME.

Panel Discussion Making India a $ 5 trillion-dollar economy in the next 5 years, was actually a good discussion between Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal Principal Economic Adviser in Ministry of Finance Government of India and Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal Past President AIMA & Chairman, Hero Enterprise.

Last session of the day was Ease of mobility: Innovations for faster, safer transportation, witnessed a very motivating address by Mr. Nitin Gadkari Minister of Road Transport & Highways; Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Government of India, who shared the developments been taken to increase transport through water ways and developing network of industrial corridors.

First session of next day was Panel Discussion: - Innovation first: Disruption as Strategy followed by the session Winning in the Digital World, Panel Discussion: - Reviving Growth: An Imperative for India and Creative Nation: Fostering a Culture of Innovation. In this session Mr. Amitabh Kant CEO, NITI Aayog emphasized on India needs to move on from adoption and adaptation of innovations to creating previously unthinkable technologies, processes, products and services. Innovation is not about meeting the needs but about redefining the needs, and it demands a big shift in everyday attitudes and practices.

The Convention was a great experience.

Objective of the workshop was to felicitate SPOCs of those colleges in which students were top scorer, and participation of the faculty and students were good in number. Ms. Bharti, Program Manager, NPTEL, Prof. Satyaki Roy National Coordinator, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur, Ms. Lalty Dutta, Project Manager, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur, Ms. Angana Sengupta Coordinator, Local Chapter, IIT Kanpur along with SPOC’s of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and North East states were present.

Dr. Vidushi Singh received Certificate of Appreciation for Active SPOC for the Swayam-NPTEL Local Chapter for I.T. S Ghaziabad for January-April 2019 by Prof. Satyaki Roy National Coordinator, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur.

Before beginning of the session, Prof. Satyaki Roy warmly welcomed the gathering. Ms. Bharti briefed about details of NPTEL, how and when it has been formed, before it was planned to just deliver video lectures, later on it has been shifted to online certification. He also briefed about achievements of NPTEL till date like 30,000+ video hours, 371+million NPTEL website view, 271+ million you tube views etc. He also shared the statistics of number of students and faculty participation from initial years to April 2019. He also communicated how these courses helped students in their placements.

Ms. Bharti also informed that like previous semester this semester also  4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks NPTEL courses will be considered as ½ FDP of one week, Full FDP of one week and 1 ½ FDP of one week respectively.

At the end SPOC of various colleges were felicitated by Prof. Satyaki Roy National Coordinator, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur, Ms. Lalty Dutta, Project Manager, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur and Ms. Angana Sengupta Coordinator, Local Chapter, IIT Kanpur.

It was totally an interactive session where SPOC from various universities and institutes of repute discussed about the various courses provided by NPTEL and also gave their suggestions to make these courses more effective for masses.

Overall it was a good learning experience about operation of NPTEL online courses.

The session was the part of one week FDP on "Integrated Technologies, Approaches and Effective Didactical Mechanism in Teaching, Learning and Research in current Scenario" organized jointly by MSME Technology Development Center (A Govt of India Organization under Ministry of MSME) & IIMT Delhi.

The session was a demonstration of pedagogy for participants to involve the learners leading to better understanding of concepts and sharpening the transferable skills. Some of the tools for effective quizzing were also discussed with the participants.

More than 50 faculty members of Management, IT and Law from different institutes participated in this FDP.

The program was organised under the series of Value Education cell, AKTU. The objective of the program was to make aware and enrich the participants with need of value education and their holistic development which in turn can shape or reshape holistic development of students in today's complex and multidimensional environment. The session were really full of enthusiasm and energy along with learning outcomes. Under this program, I got opportunity and a platform where I could be able to understand process of self exploration with the help of new proposals and basic human aspirations with an excellent of mix pedagogy. I hope and shall try to apply my efforts in a direction to reap more benefits of workshop via process of transformation in self in order to give benefits to my students and society too.

The purpose of the Faculty Development Programme was to propagate human values to the student fraternity through faculty and thus creating sensitization amongst students for a better, value driven behaviour and self-development.

The objective of thisFDP was comprised into four different levels along with Value Domain & Skill Domain:

• Harmony in Individual Level
• Harmony in the family
• Harmony in the Society
• Harmony in nature and cosmos

Process of the FDP was based on the verification on basis on Natural Acceptance. The Faculty Development Programme was focused on understanding co-existence of self and body, importance of right understanding, right feelinganalysing the importance of relationship and identifying the required physical facilities for self-comfort and existence. This session also emphasized on role of our pre-conditionings in our day to day decisions and behaviour. Further eminent speaker Ms ManishiMishra,Core Committee Member, Value Education, AKTU  talked about prosperity in the family with Hapiness. The difference between intention and competencies of an individual was brought about in this session. Thus, the importance of right evaluation of a person’s competencies was discussed very elaborately. The nine core family values were also shared in this session.

The resource persons for the session from university were Ms Manishi Mishra, Ms. Sumedha, Mr Kaushik and Dr Arunima Mishra, Around75 faculty members from different management and engineering colleges of AKTU participated in this programme.

It was throughout nice learning experience.