Participation of Faculty-IT in Education Conclave 2017

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Dr. Sunil K. Pandey, Director - IT along with Dr Umang, Prof. A.N. Tripathi, Prof. Gaurav Midha attended 6th Mail Today Education Conclave on 12th October, 2017 at Hotel Hyatt, New Delhi.
The conclave was focused towards the government’s objective to drive the right to education being implemented as a fundamental right. The conclave 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 Mr Satyapal Singh, Mister of State, HRD. Mr Singh touched upon Child education and discussed about importance of it for transforming a human being into resource for country. He has also added “Every individual needs to be good human being. It does not matter how much he is successful in his professional career?”. The minister said, "While education standards have been maintained in the southern states of our country, the situation remains grim in the northern part of India. It poses a challenge to the government and the quality needs to be upgraded.

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The minister said that the government is looking forward to a 'New India' free of four Cs - corruption, crime, casteism and communalism - by imparting affordable and accessible education to all.
Session-2 was Panel Discussion on the theme of “Mining of Ancient India”. In this session, renown authors Amish Tripathi, Anand Neelakantan, Makarand Paranjape, Poet & Professor JNU were present and Abhijit Majumdar, Managing editor, Mail Today was moderator of this session.

Session 3 was Panel Discussion on theme “Higher Education crunch: Imparting skills and employability”. In this discussion, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Vice Chancellor, Amity University Noida, Dr. C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Dr. S.K. Salwan, Vice Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University and
Prof. Aditya Shastri, Vice Chancellor, Banasthali Vidyapeeth were present and they have shared their knowledge on theme of session.

Session 4 was Panel Discussion on theme “Focus on comprehensive child development in the age of technology”. In this session, Vanita Sehgal, Principal, DPS R.K. Puram, Rekha Krishnan, Principal, Vasant Valley School, Ameeta Wattal, Principal, Springdales School and Priyanka Mehta, Principal, Amity International School, Mayur Vihar were present and grace the occasion.This session was Moderated by Aditya Berlia, Co-Founder & Pro-Chancellor of the Apeejay Stya University; Member of the Management Board of the Apeejay Stya & Svran Group.
Valedictory Session was addressed by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Science and Technology & Ministry of Earth Sciences.