The session had witnessed the participation of 40+ young faculty members and researchers from renowned colleges and universities. In this session, various communication technologies and its impact on different real-life applications were discussed. While discussing about proliferation of technologies, a detailed discussion on IoT devices in MANETs, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks & FANETs, IoT based Routing Protocols RPL and its empirical research issues was presented. In addition to this, Introduction of Cisco Packet Tracer, NetSim, its Importance, types of Network Simulators, Requirements and simulation of IoT devices were also explained through demonstration using Cisco products.

G – 20 members are heterogeneous with varied levels of development, economic growth, spread of technology and financial strength. Apart from the G-20 members, other multilateral institutions and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) participate in the discussion at the G-20 Summit and pre-summit planning. While the members cooperate against economic crunches, cooperation without consensus could be futile in the long run when countries are governed by varied political ideologies and policies.The 13th Annual G-20Summit to be held in Argentina is centred on the topic “Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development”.

ICRIER has been organising annual international conferences since 2009 prior to the G-20Summit. The discussions in these Conferences have provided a platform for engaging eminent researchers, academicians and policymakers in rich debate on topics of relevance to the G-20 Summit.The broad topics and the impending questions or issues covered in the two day conference wereEvaluating Global Financial Architecture and Regulatory Practices, Future of Work,Trade, Investment and the Multilateral Process, Role of Technology for Mitigating Climate Change, Crypto- Currencies and Blockchains - The Right Approach, Financing Infrastructure for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Food Future.

The scholarly deliberations were delivered by eminent national and international speakers from the government, embassies, international institutions like IMF, World Bank, academia and industry like Shri Suresh Prabhu, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Sanjeev Sanyal, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Jaimini Bhagwati, Suman Bery, Fred Bedore, Sujata Mehta, Usha Thorat, Ashima Goyal, Alok Sheel, Parag Waknis, R Nagaraj, Manoj Pant Imran Valodia, Shankar Acharya, Bustanal Arifin, Ashok Gulati, Daniel Chuburu, Hideki Asari, Andreas Bauer.

Rich exchange of ideas featured all the sessions.

The Session was conducted by Dr. Amita Srivastava Director BCRTC. The workshop was graced by the presence of President Noida Management as the guest of the event.

The session objective was to resolve stress, how to make life healthier and happy, how to overcome the fear , balancing between heart & brain , how to make life energized & how to control our minds.

The session was full of activities to reduce stress, stress test and burnout test. Dr. Amita enlightened the “Flight or Fight” concept, causes of stress. She talked about the action oriented & Emotion Orientation approaches also.

The workshop was based on experiential learning and wonderful experience for participants.

The Summit was focused towards the government’s objective to drive the right to education being implemented as a fundamental right. The Summit was packed with the sessions delivered by the eminent speakers from the Academia & Industry.

The welcome address was delivered by Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director (Publishing), India Today Group.

The Inaugural address was delivered by Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development. Mr. Javadekar touched upon Education and discussed about importance of it for transforming a human being into resource for country. He said that, government schools like kendriya Vidyalaya and Navyadya Schools are giving good CBSE results as compared to private schools. He has answered all the queries raised during the discussion with audience.

Raj Chengappa thanked Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar for taking the lead in delivering the inaugural address. Chengappa further announced that the summit will see the impressive line-up of addresses by the Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbaz Naqvi, and later on by Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia, followed by the State Cabinet Minister of Vocational Education and Skill Development, Uttar Pradesh, Chetan Chauhan.

Speakers for the day were CMA Sunil Sigh, Chairman of Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Dr. K.P Kaushik, Professor, National Institute of Financial Management, Dr. Ajay Garg, Certified corporate Valuer and Mr. Ravish Bhateja, Motivational Speaker.

Mr. Sunil Singh elaborated the traditional investment options and their return history with reference to government policies in last 7 years.

Dr. K.P Kaushik explained the derivative market and about new instruments which can be traded in capital market.

Mr. Ajay Garg explained that how secondary income can be generated and how much it is important to link the family regular expenditure with savings. He also explained the risk associated with each investment option.

The purpose of the program was to enhance the understanding about the different investment avenues available in the financial system, so that one can contribute towards the economic development. The program also aimed to enhance the knowledge of capital market and hence to better prepare students as well equipped advisors and investor.

FDP was very insightful for the participants.

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 teacher and to contribute the best possible to their students and hence the learning environment was highly interactive and resulted in deep routed team cohesiveness among the participants.

Prima facie, Dr. M. K. Jha gave opening remarks on Time Management and Problem Solving and addressed the participants to accept and appreciate the concept, significance and application of Time management and sensitized them to participate actively during the session with greater enthusiasm and expectations.

Initially to get connected with the participants, 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.

Prof. Shilpi Rana presented slide show in order to illustrate a systematic and organized over view of Time Management and Problem solving in day to day personal and professional life and how to balance work life of working females.

Time Management activity (Group Juggling Game) was conducted by Prof. Yachna Malhotra and Prof. Shilpi Rana among the participants to make them understand how to perform duties and responsibilities during the shortest time period judiciously without exerting stress with complete involvement and participants were over whelmed with the outputs and experiences they had during the game. Again this was followed by Simon Says activity, problem solving activities and ultimately by Query Handling , where participants shared their problems and got insight to resolve such problems.

Dr. M. K. Jha offered thanks to all participants for their patient listening and active participation during the session. The essential arrangements and hospitality hosted by school principal was praise worthy.

Today, more than ever, young women and men are change-makers, building new realities for themselves and their communities. All over the world, youth are driving social change and innovation, claiming respect for their fundamental human rights and freedoms, and seeking new opportunities to learn and work together for a better future.

This Youth workshop is with the objective to provide the framework for constructive platform and partnerships to be developed with youth. It is built on the premise that youth are the new wave to carry forward, world brotherhood communities. Dr. Sujata Kapila Menon along with Ms. Rashmi, IAS Officer were the speakers.

The workshop was divided into four different levels:

• Self harmony
• Harmony in the family
• Harmony in the Society
• Harmony in nature and cosmos

The first level concentrated on understanding co-existence of self and body, importance of right understanding, analyzing 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.

The second level talked about prosperity in the family. 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 third level talked about extension of family’s harmony with the society. In the fourth level the importance of correlation amongst the four orders of the entire cosmos i.e physical order, pranic order, animal order, human order so as to understand the relationship of mutual fulfillment within each order. During workshop, sessions were organized on video shows, group discussions and experience sharing, thereby, giving a holistic understanding on the subject.

The session concluded with an understanding that mutual fulfillment is inherent in nature to live in harmony and prosperity. The resource persons for the session from university were Shri Gopalji , Shri Manoj Gupta, Mr. Tarique and Mr. Talaan. Around 80 faculty members from different management and engineering colleges of AKTU participated in the workshop.

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