On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of Independent India, celebrated as National Education Day by the Amity Academic Staff College (AASC) in association with Institutions Innovation Council (Ministry of HRD Initiative) ,Amity University Haryana .
Amity University Haryana organized a one-day Webinar on “Reimagine Higher Education for Accelerated Learning Outcomes & Impactful R&D” to remember the great freedom fighter and political leader of India.
The aim should be to provide good guidance to students after schooling, so that they are able to make great career choices. The University education should create responsible citizens, to have financial capabilities to lead a quality of life.
In consideration of the foregoing, Hon’ble Chancellor, Dr. Aseem Chauhan, (AUH), addressed the celebration of National Education Day as the day to resolve to become better teachers, better students and a better person. Specifically stating, “We are proud as the university is not only credited with many patents but also for commercialization of these patents”, Dr. Chauhan proclaimed the New Education Policy as based on pillars of quality and accessibility to education as a great initiative by the government. He said the curriculum of Higher education should be designed so that the students have the choice to study what they are really interested in. He proudly stated that “The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has proposed the idea of implementing the choice-based credit system, that has been part of Amity Group since its inception”.
Guest of Honor, Professor Manoj Kumar Dhar, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Jammu University expressed his views about NEP 2020, that has laid a great emphasis on increased access equity, accountability and quality of Higher Education. “Keeping in mind that India is having a demographic dividend with young population and millions of students, high quality education should be made available to around 140 million youth, who are aspiring for University education in India’’, remarked Dr. Dhar.
The first panel discussion on the theme “Higher Education Curriculum Design & Delivery Innovation” was chaired by Prof. (Dr) Balvinder Shukla, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, AUUP and Co-Chaired by Prof. (Dr) Padmakali Banerjee, Pro Vice Chancellor, AUH.
The panellists for the session included Prof. (Dr) Amit Jain, Pro Vice Chancellor of Amity University Rajasthan, Prof. (Dr) M. P. Kaushik, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity University Gwalior, Prof. (Dr) Ankita Chakravarty, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity University Kolkata, Prof. (Dr) Sunil Dhaneshwar, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity University Lucknow and Prof. (Dr) Vivekanand Pandey, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity University Patna.
The second panel discussion on “Accelerating Impactful Research, Innovations & Start-ups” was Chaired by Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Amity University Rajasthan and Co-Chaired by Prof. P. B. Sharma, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, AUH.
During the discussion, Prof Ramesh Bhatnagar discussed on building start-up based enterprising culture in the academics and he gave examples of research operational in COVID-19 vaccine inventions. Prof R. K. Kohli, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Amity University, Mohali emphasized on the creation of knowledge-based research data creation in academic arenas. Prof. R. K. Pandey, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Amity University Chhattisgarh talked about the necessity of employability and problem-solving skills-based designing of the curriculum.
Moving towards concluding the event, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Prof. (Dr) P. B. Sharma, encouraged for providing support to enterprising minds for accelerating impactful R&D and urged to create the island of Research in India. ‘Vote of Thanks’ was delivered by Rear Admiral Kishan K. Pandey (Retd.), AVSM, VSM, Director HR & AASC, AUH, giving a glimpse of Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad’s contribution to the Indian Education system. He thanked Dr. Ashok Chauhan and Dr. Aseem Chauhan for becoming the true visionary force for spread of knowledge in India and abroad and showed his gratitude to the key note speaker Dr. Manoj Kumar Dhar for emphasizing on innovative temper in the view of NEP 2020. He also thanked to Dr. P. B. Sharma for designing the Program and providing guidance and mentioned the names of Dr. Sanjana Vij and Dr. Sodhi for coordinating the Program. More than 700 participants including Deans, Heads of Institutions, Faculty Members, Research Scholars and Students from various Amity Universities attended the Webinar, and the webinar concluded on an optimistic mode.