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   A brain storming meet with focus on Higher Education’s quality, relevance and Development in North East regions was held in Imphal recently and many issues impacting the education set up there were highlighted while the association of Indian Universities (AIU) laid stress on maintenance of peace and harmony in corridors of universities to pave way for healthy environs for higher education. AIU President Prof PB Sharma in his Presidential address at the meet minced no words to articulate his views on higher education scenario and said the agenda for higher education has to be focus on relevance driven Excellence and a Strong connect to Society and industry. “Integration of human values with education need be given a renewed emphasis in the campuses of our universities as we cannot afford to pay a heavy price of loss of human values in an enlightened and specialized work force in a country like ours where loss of values has created unprecedented rise of lust,...

The day after Diwali this year, when Delhi once again hit 999 microgram per cubic meter on air quality index (AQI) for its PM 2.5 , there was a  great concern voiced by press and media but, as always, no emergent measures, public advisory or immediate actions were  rolled out to mitigate the disastrous  levels of air pollution in the world's largest democracy, India, in its national capital Delhi and the NCR Region. Life and business as usual continued.  Recent Lancet study, published in local and world leading news papers, reported that as many as 9 million or more people each year are dying in the world due to pollution. In India alone this figure could be over 2.5 million (25 lacs) deaths per year, the study reveals. But did it set out a panic or creates a sense of urgency in the minds of those in government and in the corporate and citizens at large. The answer is no. Last year also when AQI touched 999 in Delhi, eye brows were raised but no...

 Airing concerns over annual drainage of Rs.100,000 crores out of country by students flying abroad for advanced studies, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) President Prof P.B Sharma implored Vice chancellors of various universities to create atmosphere of quality education at par or even better than currently offered by advanced nations across the world.     Speaking at the Roundtable of VCs of Health Science Universities at  Tirupati, Prof Sharma in his presidential address said a large number of bright students are going abroad for studies at a heavy cost while the government expenditure on education, including higher education, is barely Rs79,685.95 crore for the education sector for financial year 2017-18.  Further, of the total outlay, Rs46, 356.25 is for the school sector and the rest for higher education.  He said such a scenario has put an added responsibility on Vice Chancellors to create an environment of quality education a...

  Honoring first generation entrepreneur and Managing Director of a superspeciality hospital Dr PN Arora, Union Minister for law and justice, electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has conferred Capital Foundation’s National Award to him for perennial contributions in the field of health care and unstinted support to social causes .      In a grand function organized at India International Center on Sunday by Capital Foundation on “Emerging Digital World in India” ‘ Mr Prasad , conferred the award to Dr. P.N. Arora, Managing Director of Yashoda foundation . During the programme, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad ji was also conferred with Justice P.N. Bhagwati National Award by capital foundation. The minister said that presently Indian IT Companies are functional in around 200 cities of 80 nations across the globe which contributes to 55% of the total IT outsourcing internationally and the trend is catching up further. On r...

Charting course for the third industrial revolution,President Associationof Indian Universities (AIU ) Prof PB Sharma has called for a serious thinking on e ngineering and technology of tomorrow, observing it will veer around co nvergence of communication and renewable energy technologies. Prof Sharma, an eminent educationist and Founder VC of Delhi Technological University says In such an industrial revolution, there is a strong possibility of realizing the dream of mass-entrepreneurship, sustainable habitat and establishing the vital harmony with nature while at the same time keeping the momentum of growth and development to manifest the promise of a happy and healthy life to the billions of people around the world. This requires our commitment to pursue the cause of Frugal Engineering to gainfully utilize the enormous power of innovation for the benefit of millions of our people in the world. He recalls on January1, 2016, the  17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...

A two day international meet on innovations in the medical care arena was held in the National capital this week, opening new vistas in diagnostic discipline, backbone of holistic and quick treatment.  Experts and companies held brainstorming sessions discussing threadbare needs of patients in India where rural swathes still pine for healthcare at an affordable cost. Experts say although Rural India accounts for about 70 per cent of the population, it has less than one third of the country’s hospitals, doctors, beds etc.           The meet -“InnoHEALTH 2017” was organized on September 18 and 19 2017. It is the annual feature and it was the second in the series.Third meet will be held in October next here.  “With the immense response this year we are pleased to announce the dates for InnoHEALTH 2018, 5 th  – 6 th  October 2018, hoping to come back next year keeping the shared goals in healthcare with on...

Mrs .Upasana Arora ,Director, Yashoda Superspeciality Hospital Kaushambhi, Ghaziabad ,has been conferred with "UP Ratana"award by the UP Governor   Ram Naik at a glittering ceremony in Lucknow this week for her meritorious social services in field of medical care and other disciplines.Her work for helping poor and needy was recognised by the award, say  orgnaisers of the ceremony. Mrs .Upasana Arora ,Director, Yashoda Superspeciality Hospital Kaushambhi, Ghaziabad ,has been conferred with "UP Ratana"award by the UP Governor   Ram Naik at a glittering ceremony in Lucknow this week for her meritorious social services in field of medical care and other disciplines.Her work for helping poor and needy was recognised by the award, say  orgnaisers of the ceremony.