New Delhi Convention Centre witnessed the gathering of Vice Chancellors coming across India on November 16-17 for a two day conference to contemplate on the ways of infusion of Swamiji’s thought in the contemporary education. The event organised under the ages of Swami Vivekananda Sardh Shati Samaroh Samiti.
Theme of the conference is “Swami Vivekananda on Education - A Vision for National Resurgence”.
Event was inaugurated by Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr MM Pallam Raju and renowned Scientist and former Director General of CSIR Dr Raghunath Mashelkar.
There were deliberations on three major points i.e. man making and nation building, Relevance of Swamiji’s teachings in education and, and Application of Swamiji’s teachings in present education system.
Speakers came to deliver their speech include Chancellor of Dev Sanskriti Viswavidyalaya and head of Gayatri Pariwar Dr Pranav Pandya, Vice Chancellor of Ramakrishna Vivekananda University, Swami Atmapriyananda (Kolkata), former director of NCERT Dr JS Rajput (Delhi), Pro-VC of JNU Dr Kapil Kapoor (Delhi), Director, Higher & Technical Education, Arunachal Pradesh Dr. Joram Begi (Itanagar), VC of Makhanlal Chaturvedi Patrakarita Vishwavidyalay Prof. Brij Kishore Kuthiala (Bhopal).
Member of CAT Smt. Leena Mehendale (Mumbai), VC of Amrita University Dr. Venkat Rangan (Coimbatore), Vice President of Vivekananda Kendra Ku. Nivedita Bhide (Kanyakumari), Director, School of Translation Studies & Training, IGNOU Dr. A K Singh (Delhi) and Dr. MK Sridhar (Bangalore) were also there and spoke on different topics.
There were presentations of selective ongoing experiments relevant with the theme of the conference. After the detailed and in depth discussions on each topic one declaration (Action Plan) released in the end of the conference. Former President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and UGC Chairman Dr Ved Prakash graced the valedictory session on November 17, 2013.
Source: Ajay Bhardwaj, click4college Specialist