eINDIA 2010 Event Report

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The sixth edition of Indias largest ICT expo and conference, was held from 4-6 August 2010 at

Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC). The event was hosted by the Government of

Andhra Pradesh and organised by Elets Technomedia and CSDMS, along with the Department of

IT (GoI), Ministry of Panchayati Raj (GoI), Ministry of Labour & Employment (GoI), UIDAI, Directorate

General of Employment & Training, NeGP, and IGNOU. The three-day event was attended by over

5,000 stakeholders from across the development and government sector, including elected members

of state Assemblies and the Parliament, senior level bureaucrats, policy makers, academia, NGOs

and industry associations.

he chief guest Dr K Rosaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, lighting the

amp at the inauguration of eINDIA2010. Standing L-R: K Ratna Prabha, PS,

T , GoAP; Dr Asraf Abdel Wahab, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Administrative

Development, Egypt; Lt. Gen. (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, Lt Governor, Andaman

Nicobar; R Chandrashekhar, Secretary, DIT, GoI; Komathireddy Venkat Reddy,

Minister, IT & Communications, GoAP

Sridhar Babu, Minister, Higher Education, Andhra Pradesh and J Krishna Rao,

Minister for Food, Civil Supplies, Legal Metrology & Consumer Affairs, Andhra

radesh talking to the exhibitors

Prof VN Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancel-

lor, Indira Gandhi National Open University

Subhash C Khuntia, Joint Secretary,Department of School Education, India

Dr Rajneesh Arora, Vice Chancellor,

Punjab Technical University

R Reghunathan, Former Chief

Secretary, Delhi & Advisor, NKC

C R Biswal, Principal Secretary, Higher

Education, Andhra Pradesh

Prof V K Pathak, Vice Chancellor,

Uttarakhand Open University

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R) D Sridhar Babu, Minister, Higher Education, AP &

adendla Manohar, Dy Speaker, AP Legislative Assembly

(L-R) Dr M P Narayanan & J Krishna Rao, Minister for Food,

Civil Supplies, Legal Metrology & Consumer Affairs, AP

gatha Sangma, Minister of State for Rural Development, Government of Indiaong with Dr M P Narayanan, President, CSDMS (centre) and Dr Ravi Gupta, Edi-r-in-Chief, Elets Technomedia (left) launching the special issue of eGov magazine.

eINDIA Award winners along with Dr M P Narayanan, President, CSDMS and Dr Ravi

Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, Elets Technomedia

nibh ero cor si. Guerciduipis dolobore ent

A Raja, Union Minister for Communications and

Information Technology, Government of India

Agatha Sangma, Minister of State for Rural

Development, Government of India

dissi dance performance by members of Smitalay



42 NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JOIN DTU

There has been a recent recruitment of about 42 new faculty members at DelhiTechnological University (DTU) as lecturers with the commencement of the newacademic session. Out of these almost 23 faculty members are PhD degree holders.

NIIT LAUNCHES GNIIT FORENGINEERS IN DELHI

NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporationand Asias largest IT trainer, today, launched the industryendorsed multiple track GNIIT for Engineers in Delhi. G.

Raghavan, President-Global Individual Learning Solutions,NIIT, announced the launch of the program. GNIIT forEngineers is aimed at enhancing employability of engineeringgraduates by bridging the skill gap.

NATIONALNEWS

IIT BOMBAY AND USUNIVERSITY PARTNER FOREXCHANGEPROGRAMME

Brown University from theUnited States and IndianInstitute of Technology

(IIT) Bombay are planningto sign an agreement tostart a student exchangeprogramme in October2010. Representatives ofthe university are currentlyin India to explore thepossibility of tie-ups witheducational institutions.

ALL MEDICAL COLLEGESTO HAVE SINGLEENTRANCE EXAM

It was recently conveyed to theSupreme Court on Friday, that theMedical Council of India (MCI) hastaken a decision to introduce onecommon entrance test for all medicalcourses in India has been acceptedby the Union Ministry and would beintroduced from the next year, that

is, 2011.

CCE ASSESSMENT IN OTHERSCHOOLS WITH NEW CBSEPROGRAMME

A new programmehas been broughtinto action by theCentral Boardof SecondaryE d u c a t i o n(CBSE) to

asses whetherthe schools havebeen successful in implementingthe Continuous and ComprehensiveEvaluation (CCE). According to thecircular issued by CBSE across India,the school principals have been askedto act as peer assessors and actas monitors responsible for capacitybuilding and learning by gatheringexperiences from all the schools.

IN LAST FIVE YEARS,

PRESCHOOL FEE HASINCREASED BY 120PERCENT

Through a survey, it has beendiscovered that between 2005 to2010, the branded pre-schoolsacross the country have managed tohike the fee structure to 120 percent.The average fees for the kindergartensegment have gone up from INR1,500 to over 3,500 per month, thesurvey by the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry of India(ASSOCHAM) described.

8 VARSITIES BY ICFAI WITH INR 400 CRORE

Known for its chain of B Schools, the ICFAI Group, is planning to set up eightuniversities in as many states in the next two years with an investment of INR 400crore. It has received the necessary approvals from the governments of Chattisgarh,Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab,said SK Sharma, director, planning and coordination, ICFAI.

iDISCOVERI RAISING $10M

Supporting schools develop their curriculum, Lighthouse Funds may be leading therace for iDiscoveri. The leading contender for investing into education services firmiDiscoveri Education Pvt Ltd is the private equity firm Lighthouse Funds. iDiscoveri helpsschools develop curriculum through its programme called X-SEED and is also involvedin corporate training. iDiscoveri also provides outdoor programmes for children througha separate company called Youreka and also runs some pre-schools. InvestmentLight house carries in India is channeled through its $125-million India 2020 Fund.Emails sent to Lighthouse Funds and iDiscoveri remained unanswered at the time ofposting this article. BMR Advisors is running the fundraising process. iDiscoveri has

been founded by former worldwide marketing director of Group Danone Ashish Rajpal.The X-seed initiative has expanded to more than 400 schools. It involves services likestudent curriculum, assessment, teacher education and instructional leadership.

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PLENARY SESSIONS

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Report on Plenary SessionsHIGHLIGHTS FROM

THE SESSION

Prof VN Rajasekharan

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to connect various higher

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ICT (National Mission of

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programme on technology

enabled education. Prof VS Ramamurthy

mentioned that at higher education

level the matter is not about access but

quality assurance and there is a reason

to emphasise for excellence. Irina Ghosegave a presentation and expanded upon

Providing IT Literacy as a basic right to

all by 2020. Terry Wason, spoke about

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steps required for implementation of

ICT, which included standardisation and

integration.

PLENARY SESSION II

Access, Equity and Excellence in

Education: Opportunities

for Public Private

PartnershipThe aim of the session

was to invite policy

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The Panelists for the

digitalLEARNING India2010 Track, Plenary

Session II consisted of the

Chair, Shri R Regunathan, Chairman,

State Fee Regulatory Committee, Former

Chief Secretary, Government of Delhi and

Advisor, National Knowledge Commission,

Government of India; Asif Saleh,Policy Specialist, Access to Information

Programme, PMOs Bangladesh; Dr

KP Hewagamage, Sr Lecturer, UCSC;

James Vergese, Secretary, Department of

Education, Government of India.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SESSION

Shri R Regunathan, deliberated on need

of flexible learning and the new trends of

globalisation, increased competitiveness,

innovation and research, branding and

accreditation and use of technology.

Dr KP Hewagamage emphasisedthat it would be extremely beneficial

for the society at large there is better

communication between public and

private sectors.

Asif Saleh discussed the areas in which

attention should be given in context of ICT

in education including teaching learning

process, professional development of

teachers and providing ICT literacy to

students. James Vergese said that an

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2010with Plenary Sessions I and II.

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Envisioning eLEARNING on Global

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I consisted of the Chair, Prof VN

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Indira Gandhi National Open University

(IGNOU); Prof VS Ramamurthy, Director,

National Institute of Advanced Studies,

Government of India; Irina Ghose, Director

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Country Manager SMART Technologies.

(L-R) Terry Wason, Prof VS Ramamurthy, Prof VN Rajesekharan

Pillai and Irina Ghose

(L-R) Dr KP Hewagamage, Asif Saleh, James Vergese and

R Reghunathan

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BOOSTING SUPPORT TOSTATES, OBAMA SIGNSA BILL

US President Barack Obama,

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bill in order to extend support to

states, to prevent teacher layoffs

and make their Medicaid payments.This happened within hours after the

House of Representatives passed it.

The House, with a count of 247 to 161,

in afternoon gave a green light to the bill

that has been designed to ease the tight

state budget, in between a decline in tax

revenues and worst recession since 1930s. For

the same purpose, the Senate voted 61 to 39 to

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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND TELE-COLLABORATIONIN CHINESE SCHOOLS BY UNESCO

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- under the Facilitating ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project, took place in

Guangzhou, China from July 27-30, 2010, in collaboration with South China

Normal University and the Educational Information Centre of Guang dong

Province. The Korean Funds-In-Trust funded this Capacity-Building Workshop

on Project-Based Learning and Tele-collaboration and introduced teachers tothe Facilitating ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project, and expanded their horizons

on the use of ICT-enhanced project-based learning and tele-collaboration.

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SCHOOL EDUCATION INDIA 2010 REPORT

ICT in School Education

and Policy Matters

implementation has been done, out of the

18000 high schools in the state. Teachers

are given training for updating them withthe ICT element. He finished by insisting

upon improving the quality of service

provided, so that RMSA can be worked

upon with the best.

Dr SS Jena gave a presentation on ICTin open schooling in context of RMSA.

Open schooling is seeing a paradigm

SESSION I

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN

RASHITRAIYA MADHYAMIK

SHIKSHA ABHIYAN (RMSA)

PROGRAMME: CHALLENGES AND

OPPORTUNITIES.

The aim of the session was to carry out

deliberations focusing on the provisions

and hindrance in implementation of

the said initiative and role of ICT in itsfacilitation.

The Panelists for Session I consisted of

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SESSION

Dr D Samba Siva began the session

with a welcome address, with a note

on the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Then he

elaborated upon the RMSA initiative of

the government, for secondary and seniorsecondary education/ high school. He

elaborated that in about 7000 schools ICT

eINDIA 2010 hosted the School Education INDIA 2010, where eminent

dignitaries witnessed deliberation on Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan,

strategising and implementation of policies on usage of ICT, challenges in

developing eLearning and role of ICT in advancing inclusive education. The

track also included discussion rounds on different education models, pedagogy

and andragogy in ICT mediated classrooms, as a part of Principals Conclave.

In about 7000 schools ICT implementation has been done,out of the 18000 high schools in the Andhra Pradesh.Teachers are given training for updating them with theICT element.

Chair: Dr D Samba Siva Rao,

Secretary, School Education,

Government of Andhra Pradesh

Co-Chair: Shri Subhash C Khuntia,

Joint Secretary, Department of School

Education and Literacy, Ministry of

Human Resource Development,

Government of India; Dr SS Jena,

Chairman, National Institute of OpenSchooling, Government of India; Dr

Subir Roy, Technical Adviser, School

education Department, Government

of West Bengal; Amit Gupta, CEO, S

Chand Hartcourt (India) Pvt Ltd.

(L-R) Dr SS Jena, Dr D Samba Siva Rao, Shri SC Khuntia, Dr Subir Roy and Amit Gupta

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with curriculum reforms and classroom

transactions will also be facilitated by ICT,

under umbrella of RMSA.

SESSION II

MOVING TOWARDS DIGITALLY

EQUIPPED SCHOOLS: PRIORITIES

AND CHALLENGES

The aim of the session was to have

secretaries and principals of schools

to discuss the ways to deliberate on

how interactive classroom teaching

learning modules can be developed andimplemented.

The Panelists included

In the beginning of the session,

Seetha Kiran gave a presentation on

digital schools or the smart schools. She

appreciated CBSE for bringing in CCE

into curriculum. She insisted that 21st

Century demands that students have

to be innovative thinkers and then we

have to make them learn, helping them toconstruct knowledge and it is a must for

teachers to have ICT in classrooms. And

Shri S C Khuntia

shift from one time schooling to life

long education, fixed to flexible timing,

instructional based learning to learner

based instruction, and so on. He spoke

about the challenges in the field, course

delivery system, augmentation of learning

resources, PPP and ICT based resource

support for open schooling.

Dr Subir Roy talked about ICT

implementation at schools and use

of computers only, for ICT literacy. Hetold about RMSA in West Bengal with

10,000 secondary schools , grant of

INR 5 lac per school, challenges being

faced, and concluded by talking about

effective elearning systems (to comprise

of interactivity and simulation).

Amit Gupta then spoke about large

Indian market space, requirement of a

policy to let the private players interact at

large with the education system. RMSA

needs to bring not a few but all schools

together under the benefit umbrella. He

concluded by requesting governmentrepresentative Shri SC Khuntia, to

consider giving an actual shape to

PPP models allowing more private

participation and benefit to maximum

number of schools.

Shri SC Khuntia then addressed the

gathering, beginning by speaking about

RMSA, as a logical extension to SSA.

Universalisation of education through

secondary education is a highlighting

factor for RMSA. He emphasised on need

to increase access, equity and quality

the three pillars for RMSA. He spoke

about new ways of learning, that are ICT

enabled and initiatives being taken by

government for the same. For instance,

in KVS and NVS are mostly ICT enabled

now, under the ICT enabled schoolscheme. There is an effort to equip high

school children to cope with future and

it is a must to make teaching-learning

can be enhanced using ICT as leverage.

He spoke about capacity building of

teachers and importance of PPP as being

envisaged under RMSA. Government has

been recently working on Draft National

Curriculum for Teachers and there ICT

is being included in every pre-training

course and also the in-service training

programmes. He also described about

providing online libraries, e-comprehensiveevaluation and assessment, easy

monitoring for the parents regarding

the school progress of children and

scholarships for the children with use

of ICT. Near the end of his address, he

explained that besides scholastic activities

many other educational activities, along

There is an effort to equip high school children to cope with thefuture and it is a must to leverage ICT for teaching-learning.

Chair: K Sadagopan, Deputy

Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya

Samiti (NVS)

Co-Chair: Prof BP Khandelwal,

Former Chairman, Central Board of

Secondary Education; Seetha Kiran,

Principal and Regional Director, DAV

Institutions, South Zone; C Neelap,

Education Officer, Kendriya VidyalayaSangathan, Regional Office, Hyderabad

Terry Wason, Country Manager India,

SMART Technologies.

(L-R) C Neelap, Seetha Kiran, Prof BP Khandelwal, K Sadagopan and Terry Wason



we can not afford to say that we do nothave ICT enabled schools.

Terry Wason, next spoke highlighting

the role of in-service professional

development and to strengthen teachers

skills. He also explained that social

networking sites should be considered as

learning sites such as teacher tube, a part

of YouTube based site, where teachers

share their learnings. C Neelap put forth

two questions whether you should create

technology or perpetually be acceptable of

people who create technology for school.

He described that it is important to includeICT in teaching so that we can compete

with global standards. He insisted that

the preachers must provide guaranteed

quality knowledge and smiling learning

which makes every student effective user

of technology.

K Sadagopan mentioned that eLearning

is better known as extended or revolving

or everywhere learning. He explained that

future will be better than. The traditional

methods are being challenged today and

ICT implementation, especially in past ten

years, has proved its worth with increasedgraduation rate, more meaning connection

between staff and students and stronger

relationships of academic institutions with

business. He told that quality content

acquired for effective teaching-learningand finally said, we need to bring learning

to people instead of people to learn.

Prof BP Khandelwal, to begin with,

spoke about life long learning. Technology

has arrived, has made learning more

vibrant and things are being turned

into more interactive and attractive

in classroom. He made an important

point that teachers and their value must

never be negated. He mentioned about

importance of values that lie in education

and International Commission Report

for Education adopted by all UNESCOmember countries where emphasis is

on learning the treasure within. He put

forth that with technology there should

be implementation and supplementation,

especially with respect to capacity

building.

SESSION III

DIGITAL STORYTELLING:

ICT MEDIATED LEARNING

AND PRACTICES (SPECIAL

SESSION SPONSORED BY

COMMONWEALTH OFEDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTRE

FOR ASIA)

The aim of the session was to share

stories related to using radio media for

dissemination of knowledge in schools.

The panel consisted of

HIGHLIGHTS

R Shreedher introduced some

international delegates to speak on

the digital stories for enhancement in

school education. Prof Vasudha Kamat

moderated the session.

Vandana Arimardan talked about

work of CIET, where they have two

audio studios and two video studio from

where daily networking, conferencing and

interactive programmes are broadcasted.

She described that they broadcast

programmes from Gyan Vani and GyanDarshan. They have 12 channels and

thousands of audio clips of historical

importance. Then she elaborated about

the launch of I-Radio, which is a form of

web-casting. For the broadcast towers

are required while I-Radio operates with

help of a cost effective set up and from

there send signals from internet (use of

MTNL Broadband), globally. They work for

the education of children with effective use

of technology.

Prof Kamat added to above that they

also convert text books into to digitalbooks that are available to visually

challenged students.

Khor Kok Yeow talked about Life

Size webcast method at WOU. He

explained about the biggest challenge in

usual webcast is the cost, which is very

expensive. He talked about challenges

available at WOU the bandwidth, audio

and video and Internet for implementation

of I-Radio in Malaysia. Finally, about the

I-Radio implementation he told, It was

a big success when received positive

feedback and comment from different ROand public internet users, knowing that

the audio/video is clear and without lag.

CIET has two audio studios and two video studio from wheredaily networking, conferencing and interactive programmesare broadcasted.

Chair: Dr R Shreedher, Director,

Commonwealth of Educational Media

Centre for Asia;

Moderator: Prof Vasudha Kamat,

Joint Director, CIET, National Councilfor Education, Research and Training

(NCERT); Vandana Arimardan, CIET,

NCERT; Khor Kok Yeow, Wawason

Open University, Penang, Malaysia;

Ahmadzulkarnin Ramli, Open University,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Kalinga

Athulathmudali, Tech Lanka, Colombo,

Sri Lanka; Kadu Baddanage

Buddhika Sampat Darshana, Tel Radio,

Colombo, Sri Lanka; Zeena Abdul

Gafoor, Repulic of Maldives.

(L-R) Dr R Shreedher, Kadu Baddanage Buddhika Sampat Darshana, Kalinga Athulathmudali, Ahmadzulkarnin

Ramli, Zeena Abdul Gafoor, Prof Vasudha Kamat, Vandana Arimardan, Khor Kok Yeow



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there is a station and a studio; and with

help of professional experts broadcasting

of relevant programmes is done but a

major challenge is presence of only a few

producers.

SESSION IV

ROLE OF ELEARNING TO

ENHANCE SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE

OF STUDENTS

The aim of the session was to explore

how multi-media instruments can help in

encouraging children to learn in productiveway, through deliberations amongst the

implementers of learning.

The panelists included-

HIGHLIGHTS

Pameila Khanna began by giving an

introduction of the topic and elaborating

on the use of ICT in enhancing subject

knowledge of students. Simmi Kher

introduced Tony Blair Faith Foundation

that connects schools across globe

with video conferencing. She then gave

presentation on Web2.0. She spokefrom perspective of being teacher and

how motivation can help teachers to use

ICT effectively for classroom teaching.

She gave a few other connotations of

ICT information connecting technology,

information collaboration technology, and

information cultural change technology.

Then Vineet Koka spoke about

the how elearning can help students

efficiently grasp knowledge. For them he

demonstrated example of how a lesson

can be planned with help of technology,

which is easy to be memorised andunderstood by students, on blood clotting.

He explained how technology they provide

can produce uniformity in teaching, cover

absence of a teacher, help students in

practicing on their own, is simple to use

and requires minimum hardware.

James Shanely spoke about use of

interactive whiteboards. He introduced

Ahmadzulkarnin Ramli presented a

case study Digital Story Telling (DST):

The Case of Open University Malaysia

(OUM). At OUM, DST has been seen as

a facilitator of learning both by itself and

in combination with other instructional

elements. He concluded by saying, In

order to stimulate DST development for

education purposes at acceptable cost

and timeline; investing to have an in-house

Learning Materials Development Centre

(CiDT) is the right decision for OUM.

Buddhika gave a presentation onTelradio, a form of internet radio service.

He briefly explained the meaning of digital

story telling as an art of telling stories with

a variety of digital multimedia and DST

workshops that have been conducted in

Sri Lanka. He spoke about applications

of the same in the area of health care,

education, disaster management and

community. The challenges faced by his

institution mainly comprised of script

writing, content dissemination and low

number of DST produced after the

workshops. Kalinga Athulathmudali spokeabout how I-Radio helps in breaking

geographical boundaries in elearning. He

explained the concept of Tech Katha,

and explained that how iRadio is a highly

interactive, on demand way of breaking

language barriers, sharing knowledge and

building communities with self-support.

Zeena Abdul Gafoor gave a presentation

on I-Radio in Maldives. They started this

programme in Maldives about six months

ago. She described the workshops hosted

through I-radio with parents, teachers and

students, to disseminate knowledge to all.To sustain and maintain I-Radio there is

an Education Development Centre, where

Chair: Pameila Khanna, Principal,

CHIREC Public School; Simmi Kher,

India Coordinator, Tony Blair Foundation;

Vineet koka, Vice President, Marketing

& Ops, Designmate (I) Pvt Ltd J a m e s

Shanely, Director Sales, Mimio; Peter

Cahill, Education Media and Publishing

Group International (an affiliate ofHoughton Mifflin Harcourt), VP Business

Development and Strategy, Ireland;

Praveen K Pavuluri, Vice President,

Prapan Solutions Pvt Ltd.

(L-R) Peter Cahill (presenting), Simmi Kher, Pameila Khanna, James Shanely, Vineet Koka and

Praveen K Pavuluri

iRadio is a highly interactive, on demand way of breakinglanguage barriers, sharing knowledge and building

communities with self-support.

Peter Cahill



Mimios new suite of interactivewhiteboards. He laid emphasis on

delivering quality and effectiveness through

content loaded within the interactive

white boards. Praveen K Pavuluri talked

about integrating technology in primary

education. He spoke about the add-

on technology education services, his

company provides to schools and state

governments, especially after school, to

disadvantaged children. He talked about

empowering schools with technology and

using multimedia for helping students

and teachers to build their respectivecapacities.

Peter Cahill, talked about how before

use for teachers its a must to understand

any elearning technology which has to

be used. The motive of his company is

to empower teachers to create better

learners.

He spoke about quality of teacher

in classroom, appreciating different

activities that teachers indulge in

schools, understand the needs of

teachers, understand student needs

and considering increasing level ofengagements of students.

After each session, there was a

question-answer round, after which all the

speakers were thanked with a token of

appreciation.

SESSION V

STRATEGISING AND

IMPLEMENTATION OF

POLICIES ON USAGE OF ICT IN

LEVERAGING LEARNING

The aim of the session was to invite

stakeholders from government to discusseffective use of ICT tools in School

Education.

The Panelists included -

The session began with address

by K Anwar Sadath. He spoke about

the ICT implementation in school

Chair: K Anwar Sadath, Director, IT@

Schools Project, General Education

Department, Government of Kerela; Dr

Sushmita Mitra, Director, SSS, NIOSS

Selvaraj, Assistant Commissioner, KVS,

Andhra PradeshAmit Khanna, Business

Development Director, N Computing;

Satish Jha, CEO, One Laptop Per

Child (OLPC); Ranjit Singh, CEO,

Genee Solutions India Pvt Ltd; John

Reder, Education Market Development

Manager, DLP Products, Texas

Instruments.

(L-R) Shri K Anwar Sadath, S Selvaraj, Amit Khanna, Satish Jha, Ranjit Singh and John Reder

education in Kerela. He highlighted

points on policy framework, infrastructure

readiness (equipped computer labs with

broadband), capacity building (extensive

teacher training programmes) and content

development and management (inlcuding

multi-faceted approach in schools

including tools such as - Print, TV, Satellite

& Web Media).Dr Sushmita Mitra talked about how

ICT has changed learning into a 24/7

process. She elaborated that technologies

available today and traditional pedagogy

are bound to have some tensions as

they are different in terms of activities

done, type of learning (collaborative vs

instructional), creativity, integration of

theory and practice, and evaluation. She

concluded by saying, Strategy plan ought

to stress on complete integration with

existing structures, processes and critical

issues for a change for future.S Selvaraj presented a comparison

of education at Kendriya Vidhyalayas

before the advent of ICT and in present

situation. He described the ICT facilities

available at schools and how teachers use

the same effectively to teach the class.

He later discussed the research papers

and articles available on ICT use in

schools.

Ranjit Singh to begin with gave

introduction on his company Genee

Solutions. He later elaborated how they

provide educational solutions to supportteachers in making classroom learning

more fruitful.

He explained, with help of demonstration

of the equipments they manufacture, that

Technology has so much more flexibility,

impact and opportunities for student

inclusion.

(L-R) Dr Sushmita Mitra, Shri K Anwar Sadath, S Selvaraj, Amit Khanna, Satish Jha, Ranjit Singhand John Reder



Satish Jha talked about One Laptop PerChild, describing state of the present time

education system for children, the barriers

present (including infrastructure, teaching

and content) and the most effective ways

in which the challenges can be met using

transformational OLPC.

Amit Khanna gave a presentation on

proven strategy to reduce ICT acquisition

and maintenance cost in education. He

then described about the way in which

N Computing devices help in creating

affordable, multiple, operational desktops

with help of only a few master computers.

Additionally, this helps in saving electricity,

reduced e-waste and hardware waste,and bringing computing to 1.8 million

students in India.

John Reder made a presentation on 3Dfor Education, the digital display devices.

He elaborated on the 3D revolution,

necessity to acquire good 3D, 3D pilot

programmes and results of the same. The

devices developed by Texas Instruments

are supportive in manner of high value

content they provide, he added.

SESSION VI

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION:

SCHOOL LEADERS CONCLAVE

Right to Education and Role of ICT

The objective of the session was togather recommendations from experts

and principals regarding the role of ICT in

execution of RTE act.

The panelists consisted of -

HIGHLIGHTS

Dr Mohd Ilyas Rizvi talked about

Andhra Pradesh government initiatives.

He mentioned that the government,

even before the RTE act came to be

implemented, had takena call to provide

free education to all students from SC/ST/

OBC and minority groups, from class twoto the higher education courses (including

the professional courses). The fees of

all these students is to be borne by the

state government and they have been

given right to attain free of cost admission

in schools (be it government or private).

Since, the drop out rate of the students

from disadvantaged communities has also

gone down.

Dr Santosh Babu gave a presentation

elaborating on how it is possible to provideworld class educational facilities to all the

people in both urban and rural India. He

talked about the three classes of poor

rich poor, middle class poor and poor

poor and how percolation of resources

are required to the most bottom layer of

the poor.

He talked about importance of state

collector and how dissemination of

resources can be effective if collector is

careful at his end. He also talked about

self help groups, child friendly village and

dissemination of knowledge.

Arun C Mehta mostly discussed the

features of the RTE act. He explainedthat ICT provisions are to be given to

schools. But ICT details and way of

implementation is not available to all, yet.

He also mentioned about the provision to

have a redressal mechanism/ monitoring

mechanism but it will take time to develop

it. Again it is the responsibility of state govt

to develop child helpline/ online feedbakc

mechanism where children and parents

are enabled to register any violation of

the RTE act with government, so that

action can be taken by government.

Finally, he spoke about importance ofhaving professional/ qualified teachers

in schools.

Chair for Session VI: Dr Mohd Ilyas Rizviaddressing the gathering

(L-R) CVenkata Giri, Prof Arun C Mehta and Dr Santosh Babu

Chair: Dr Mohd Ilyas Rizvi, IFS,

Chairman and Managing Director,

Andhra Pradesh State, Minorities

Finance Corporation; Prof Arun

C Mehta, Head Department of

Educational Management Information

System (EMIS), NEUPA; C VenkataGiri, Teacher, Kendriya Vidhayalaya

Sanghathan; Dr Santosh Babu,

Managing Director, Elcot.

Principal D Usha Reddy putting forth her opinionafter the discussion on her table during Session VI



C Venkata Giri talked about his teaching

experience at school, in sector of ICT, for

over 15 years. He emphasised that unless

a teacher is there to teach, the ICT tools

or any tools are of no use. He insisted

upon supporting teachers to gain the

relevant skills to make classroom teaching

relevant. For a better future of education,

teachers should be prepared to use ICT.Following the above presentations

was a round table discussion between

principals across various tables. The

discussions consisted of points such as

governments role in providing 100% free

education to all students, requirement of

funds for facilitating education of 25%

of the seats that are to be reserved in

private schools, and so on.

SESSION VII

BREAKING BARRIER TOWARDS

ACCESS AND SUCCESS:TECHNOLOGY AS ENABLER IN

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

The aim of the session was to invite the

educationists to discuss how technology

can support seamless education across

various disparities.

The panelists included -

HIGHLIGHTS

Usha D Reddy began the session by

introducing the title and deliberating on the

same. She spoke about the importance of

using technology in a balanced manner

neither over doing it or underplaying itsrole. She described that it is essential for

teachers to be familiar with the technology

and use the resources that are available

with them. Cooperation from private

sector is of equal importance. She finally

spoke about importance censorship

of digital content and bridging the gap

between the economically diverse groups.

Md. Afzal Hossain Sarwar, spoke

about ICT implementation with respect

to teacher training, classroom teaching-

learning, supplementary materials, and

self-learning materials. He talked aboutdifferent kinds of digital content and

reflected on the Bottom-up approach

in teaching, in Bangladesh. He further

elaborated upon empowerment of

teachers, use of multimedia and need of

active leadership for combining the effortsof technologies and human efforts; along

with Business Process Re-engineering.

S Venkatesh talked about Manipal

Education and TutorVista. He talked about

the credentials of the same, elaborating

the methodology (containing canned

teaching, mapping the learning process,

using semantic technology and assessing

Md Afzal Hossain Sarwar

It is essential for teachers to be familiar with the technology anduse the resources that are available with them.

(L-R) S Venkatesh, Hariharun M, Md Afzal Hossain Sarwar, Dr Usha D Reddy and Krishan Khanna

Chair: Usha D Reddy, Principal

Meridian School

Md Afzal Hossain Sarwar, Content

Development Associate, Access toInformation Project, PMO, Bangladesh;

Hariharun M, CEO, Hicommands

Tech India Ltd; Krishna Khanna,

Chairman, i2K; S Venkatesh, Tech

Architect, Edurite.

the impact). He described a view of next

generation classrooms, that would be

solar powered, 3G connectivity, and

projection technologies.Krishan Khanna began by describing

thirty one demos of technology platform

that i2K provides. He talked about the

future education which will see artificial

intelligence, 24/7 learning, one to one

mentoring, change from teacher centric

system to student centric learning system.

He told that every human being has a

different style of learning- so teachers

will have to learn to work with diverse

personalities. He finally spoke about the

interactive, one to one mentoring, artificial

intelligence platform they provide supports11 Indian languages and is low cost .

Hariharun M spoke about the platform

Hicommands company provides in

education sector. He explained how

ICT implementation is usually confined

to use of computers and projectors

in the classrooms. He explained that

his company specialises in emerging

pedagogy and they train teachers to

be comfortable with use of technology.

They support interactive reinforcement,

help teachers customise course to suit

students and be part of learning process.With this the two day track on school

education came to its closure.\\



HIGHER EDUCATION TRACK

Tracking Innovations inHigher Education

respondents from both the public and

private sectors say that technological

innovation will have a major influence on

teaching methodologies over the next five

years. In fact, technology will become a

core differentiator in attracting students

and corporate partners.

The National Programme on Technology

Enhanced Learning [NPTEL] has come along way in opening up education to the

masses through the use of technology.

125 video courses are available on

YouTube and 130 courses on the web.

Global developments in OCW, OKI,

OER, Wikibooks, OCW-2, Open Access

Publishing, Curriki, etc. have facilitated

the process of spreading higher education

through open source. Cloud Computing

and FOSS suites are also available to

reduce cost.Some of the challenges, like the shortage

of quality faculty, need to be addressed

India has the finest of educationists

and academicians who are experts not

only in dissemeination of knowledge

and practice but also in bringing aboutcreative changes in the system to evolve

a knowledge economy that is the best in

the world. The Higher Educationb Track

sought to deliberate on pertinant issues

in policy and practice that will enable

India to usher into an era of inclusive and

innovative higher education.

SYSTEMIC ENHANCEMENT OF

LEARNING & TEACHING IN

INNOVATION, RESEARCH AND

DEVELOPMENT: POLICY AND

PRACTICES

(L-R) Dr Srinivas Pentyala, Prof Srivathsan and CR Biswal

The Higher Education Track brought together education leaders, academicians,

and practitioners to discuss contemporary issues in higher education and to put

together valuable information for addressing key challenges in this field.

Education technology will become a core differentiator inattracting students and corporate partners. The NationalProgramme on Technology Enhanced Learning [NPTEL]has come a long way in opening up education to the masses.

Chair: C R Biswal, Principal Secretary,

Higher Education Department,

Government of Andhra Pradesh

Panelists: Prof Srivathsan,

Pro Vice Chancellor, IGNOU

Dr V Balasubramanyam, Domain

Consultant-Medical, elearning &

Professor, Dept of Anatomy, St

JohnsMedical College; Dr Srinivas

Pentyala, Director of Translational

Research, Stony Brook MedicalCenter, Stony Brook, New York;

Dr Indraneel Ghose, Science &

Technology Analyst, Delegation of

European Union to India; Dr D N

Reddy, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal

Nehru Technical University; Marc-

Alexis Remond, Director, Government,

Education and Healthcare Solutions

for Polycom Asia Pacific.

The session highlighted that technology

has become vital in order to make

higher education more responsive tostudent needs. According to a recent

survey, nearly two-thirds (63%) of survey

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Discussion forums would facilitate enquiry

based learning and enable sharing of

wider range of learning resources. Wikis

help support collaborative education and

development of new resources. With the

gradual change in the education system

through technology, the role of the teacher

is now shifting towards that of becoming a

key facilitator of learning.

ASSESSMENT, ACCREDITATION &

QUALITY STANDARDS IN HIGHER

EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY

LEADING THE WAY

According to Prof Rangappa,

technological innovation is now changing

the very way that universities teach and

students learn. Technology has hadand

will continue to havea significant impact

on higher education.

The session highlighted several issues

in higher education. The current GrossEnrollment Ratio in the higher education

in India is 12% in the 18-23 age group,

as compared to a global average of 24%

and 30% in developed countries. There is

a need to improve the quality of education

in colleges. There has been a growing

awareness that universities have been

reduced to admissions and examination

control centres, and that increased

attention has to be given towards quality

research.

Quality and accreditation in higher

education are important parameters to

ensure good standards in teaching and

learning. It identifies the producer and

consumer and hence grants confidence to

both. Accreditation grants recognition by

the consumer and also the product itself.

The quality of education is the basic needof the society. There are number of effective

teaching & learning methodologies in

practice. Technology is the most effective

way to increase the students knowledge.

Nowadays ICT plays emminent role in the

process of integrating technology into the

educational activities.

OPEN UNIVERSITY & DISTANCE

EDUCATION: FLEXIBLE

EDUCATION PRACTICES (SPECIAL

IGNOU SESSION)

The advances in information andcommunication technology provide great

opportunities to enhance teaching and

learning in higher education by both on-

campus and distance education. Even

disabled students who are denied access

to traditional institutions, and all those who

require updating of their knowledge and

life-long education can now be benefited

by the modern facilities of communication.They also provide increased access

to information sources and facilitate

communication among researchers and

teachers and the building of networks of

institutions and scholars.

The potential of open and distance

learning are many. In efforts to meet the

Chair: Dr Darlie O Koshy, Director

General, Institute of Apparel

Management & Apparel Training &

Design Centre ( AEPC)

Panelists: Prof V K Pathak,

Vice Chancellor, Uttrakhand Open

University; Prof Srivathsan, Pro

Vice Chancellor, IGNOU; Prof KS Rangappa, Vice Chancellor &

Chariman, Karnataka State Open

University; Amy Thomas, Learning

Specilalist, Ecole Solutions; Satish

Kaushal, Executive Director, Ernst &

Young Pvt Ltd.

Dr A P Wadegaonkar, Maharashtra KnowledgeCorporation

With the gradual change in the education system throughtechnology, the role of the teacher is now shifting towards that

of becoming a key facilitator of learning.

Moderator: Prof K S Rangappa, Vice

Chancellor & Chariman, Karnataka

State Open University

Panelists: Dr Elizabeth Sherly,

Director, Indian Institute of Information

Technology and Management- Kerala; Dr Rajagopal, Regional Director,

IGNOU; Biju Zachariah, Executive

Vice President, Sales, MeritTrac.

Dr R P Singh, Vice Chancellor, Sharda University

Dr M Roberts Masillamani, Dean Computing

Sciences, Hindustan Institute of Technology



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information in general. This availability ofresearch material and information happens

to both inspire and threaten teachers.

Often the perception is that educators

are not willing to adapt to new technologies

as they feel threatened from the spurt of

information. However, this perception

needs to be changed through adequate

training and bringing about greater

familiarity with education technology for

educators. A very critical role has to be

played by teacher education institutions

in providing the necessary leadership

in adapting pre-service and in-serviceteacher education to deal with the current

demands of society and economy. New

pedagogies and tools for learning have

to be adapted with the aim of enhancing

the teaching-learning process. Moreover,

teacher education institutions must also

give guidance in determining how thenew technologies can best be used in

the context of the culture, needs, and

economic conditions of their country.

MAINTAINING QUALITY

STANDARDS IN ENGINEERING

AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION:

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Engineering colleges have mushroomed

in India over the past few years. The

session focused on the need to ensure

quality standards and for maintenance ofa monitoring mechanism for engineering

colleges across India. The All India Council

for Technical Education (AICTE) has been

a prominent player in this field, having

set several parameters for technical

education institutes. These parameters are

in essence, the minimum requirements for

any educational institute to be recognised.

However, these guidelines have often

been misrepresented by new educational

institutes to suit requirements and set shop.

There is a need for greater accountability

among colleges to ensure that qualified,trained and industry ready students are

churned out of these institutes.\\

Chair: Dr Rajneesh Arora, Vice

Chancellor, Punjab Technical University

Panelists: Uma Maheswari P,

Assistant Professor, Dept of Media

Sciences, Anna University; Amit

Gupta, CEO, S Chand Harcourt; S

Rajeev, VP Strategic Alliances Everonn

Education Ltd; Amit Ranade,

Manager Maharashtra Knowledge

Corporation.

Chair: Dr Rajeshree Dutta

Kumar, Senior Programme Officer,

digitalLEARNINGPanelists: Padmaja Naraharisetty,

Principal Mentor CIHL, IIIT- Hyderabad;

Peter Mozelius, IT-Pedagogue,

Stockholm University; Prof Shweta

Bhardwaj, Professor, IBS; Dr Rajneesh

Arora, Vice Chancellor, Punjab Technical

University.

new and changing demands for education

and training, open and distance learning

may be seen as an approach that is at

least complementary and under certain

circumstances an appropriate substitute

for the face-to-face methods that still

dominate most educational systems.

Through the open universities and

distance learning initiatives, mechanismsare in place to upgrade skills at regular

intervals and develop new competencies.

Peoples needs of lifelong learning

are constantly expanding. While its

benefits can be evaluated by technical,

social and economic criteria, distance

learning methods also have their own

pedagogical merit, leading to different

ways of conceiving knowledge generation

and acquisition. To the learner, open and

distance learning means more freedom

of access, and thereby a wider range of

opportunities for learning and qualification.The barriers that may be overcome

by distance learning include not only

geographical distance, but also other

confining circumstances, such as personal

constraints, cultural and social barriers

and lack of educational infrastructure.

Distance education is thought to be an

effective way of educating people of all

sections in society.

STRENGTHENING CAPACITIES OF

EDUCATORS: THE ICT WAY

Integration of technology in education

would also mean training and capacity

building of teachers in the same field.

Technology in education is not new, but

modern computer technologies, such as

the Internet, allow new types of teaching

and learning experiences to flourish.

Many new technologies are interactive,

making it easier to create environments

in which students can learn by doing,

receive feedback, and continually refine

their understanding and build new

knowledge. Access to the Internet givesunprecedented opportunities in terms of

the availability of research material and

Dr Elizabeth Sherly, Director, IIITM-K

Prof K S Rangappa, Vice Chancellor &

Chairman, Karnataka State Open University

Dr Rajagopal, Regional Director, IGNOU



SKILL DEVELOPMENT & VOCATIONAL TRAINING TRACK

Roadmap for Building GloballyCompetitive Workforce

The session on vocational education

and skills development began with

the Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC)

Programme for Skill Development and

Training. The aim of the session was to

understand why it is important to create

and sustain an industrial interface with

the Universities for skill development and

vocational training programmes. Thelacunae in formal education is filled in by

developing skill capacities in the range

of non formal streams. Capacity building

supply is linked to employment by the

industrial demand.

Four lakh students graduate out

from the colleges and universities of

the state of Andhra Pradesh. However,

research studies have shown that low

level of awareness of skills required for

industries have resulted in not more than10% of general graduates and 25% of

engineering graduates being considered

With the rising demand for formal skills

and vocational training and education, a

strong need has been felt by stakeholdersto have a platform for deliberating certain

pressing issues pertaining to skills and

vocational training. The industries, not

only from the region, but also from

across the globe, have to address the

challenges, along with the policy makers,

thought leaders and the community. In

this background, the Skill Development &

Vocational Training track focused on few

thematics, namely - skills and information

literacy, PMs National Skills Mission, skills

development and training, certification

and quality assurance across educationsector, role of training centres in providing

youth employability and best practices in

vocational education system.

IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY-

UNIVERSITY SYNERGY IN SKILL

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

(INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC

GOVERNANCE SPECIAL SESSION)

Amarnath Reddy (standing) and the panelists at the IEG Special Session on skill development

The increasing demand from the industry for skilled manpower has

accentuated the need to address the gap between the demand and supply of

trained labour force. The sessions in the Skill Development & Vocational Training

Track sought to deliberate on crucial issues relating to the sector.

India remains the only country to provide the world withthe largest youth population. Hence, strengthening skills andvocation sector becomes crucial. Building synergy between

industry and academia has to be accorded high priority.

Chair: Amarnath Reddy, CEO,

Institute for Electronic GovernancePanelists: Matli Chandra Shekhar,

Director, Institute for Electronic

Governance; K V Vishnu Raju,

Chairman, Sri Vishnu Education

Society; Dr Raghava Cherabuddi,

Chairman, CVR College of Engineering;

Ajay Kapoor, Country Manager, Oracle

Academy; Orungati Naresh Kumar,

Symbiosis Technologies; Shalini S,

Head-Learning and Development, Tata

Consultancy Services; Ch Srinagesh,

Campus Connect, Infosys Technologies

Ltd, Hyderabad Development Centre;

L Balasubramania, President, Skills

Business Solutions, NIIT Ltd.

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(L-R) B S Raghupathy, Yuvraj Galade, Sourav

Banerjee, Asfaq Ahmad and Jasvider Singh

manufacturing sectors of textile and

apparel industries.

NATIONAL SKILLS MISSION:

DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES AND THE

ROLE OF INDUSTRY

The session brought out several focal

points, including the need for renewedemphasis on skills development for a

growing economy like India, especially

by involving the private sector. The main

challenge has been to fill the gap between

the demand of the industry and supply

of trained manpower. The National Skills

Mission has set up a target of training 5

crore people by 2022. Involving the private

sector would enhance the skill building

capabilities, since training provided by

them will be relevant and specific to

market requirements.

NSDC has been given the mandate to

facilitate the process of skilling 500 million

people in India by 2022, mainly by fostering

private sector initiatives in skill development

programmes. This will be done through

significant industry involvement for

upgradation of skills to international

standards NSDC will enhance, support and

coordinate private sector initiatives for skill

development through appropriate Public-

Private Partnership models and strivefor significant operational and financial

involvement from the private sector.\\

employable or are employed. There

has been a strong realisation among

the stakeholders towards the need for

an effective synergy between industry,

government and academia. To help

realise this objective, the Andhra Pradesh

government incorporated the Institute

for Electronic Governance (IEG) to train

young engineers to become knowledge

workers.It was highlighted that although the

number of engineering colleges have

been on the rise, the employability of

students and quality of the faculty has

often been a point of debate. Quality

infrastructure in engineering colleges and

faculty competence needs to be checked

to ensure skilled engineers.

Communication skills and other soft

skills including IT prowess are very

important for those youth entering the job

market. Institutes for training in foreign

languages, as well as institutes to trainstudents in English, are fundamentally

important since many of the clients are

from foreign countries, and students

need to be skilled in language skills.

SKILLS AND VOCATIONAL

LITERACY: TECHNOLOGY

ENHANCED EMPLOYMENT

(IGNOU SPECIAL SESSION)

The session brought out certain basic

facts about India in the skill development

framework. Dr Jena pointed out that outof the population aged between 15-29

years, only 2% have formal vocational

training, 8% have non-formal vocational

training, and 93% of workforce are in

the unorganised sector. New entrants to

the workforce every year is 12.8 million.

India has the youngest population in

the world, with median age of 24, in the

year 2000.

The National Policy on Education

provides for vocational stream in the

higher secondary stage. About 5% of

total student strength in higher secondarystage are in vocational stream, while the

target under National Policy is 25%.

According to TVLN Rao, skill and

knowledge are the driving forces for

economic growth and social development.

The economy becomes more productive,

innovate and competitive through

skilled human potential. Darlie Koshy

emphasised that it is essential to merge

vocational skills training with mainstream

education. The education and training

arms of AEPC signed a MoU with Indira

Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)to expand the range of vocational

education for apparel industry. The

initiative has sought to improve skill

base for both the domestic and export

Chair: Dr Darlie O Koshy, Director

General, Institute of Apparel

Management & Apparel Training &Design Centre ( AEPC) Panelists:

Dr S S Jena, Chairman, National

Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS);

TVLN Rao, Deputy Director, Advance

Training Institute for Electronic and

Process Instrumentation, Ministry of

Labour and Employment, Govt of

India; Vivek Agarwal, CEO, Liqvid

Chair: B S Raghupathy, JointDirector, Employment and Training,

Karnataka Panelists: Asfaq

Ahmad, Deputy Director, Advance

Training Institute; Yuvraj Galade,

Vice President, National Skill

Development Corporation; Sourav

Banerjee, Senior Specialist, Education

and Skill Development, USAID;

Jasvider Singh, CEO, Words Worth

The Jawahar Knowledge Center (JKC) has been an innovativeendeavour to upgrade student skills to industry grade and in

promoting the interaction between academia and industry.

Dr S S Jena, Chairman, National Institute of

Open Schooling speaks at the session



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