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Chandigarh December 23, 2020

The Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with National Service Scheme, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a web-lecture of Prof. Kaushal Kumar Sharma, Honorary Director, ICSSR-NRC, and Professor,Center for the Study of Regional Development( CSRD), JNU, New Delhi on the topic, ‘National Education Policy 2020: An Evolving Perspective’ ,today.

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The web lecture was held under the guidance of our chief patron, Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University . The Guest of Honour, Prof. Devinder Singh, Coordinator, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Centre, and Professor, Department of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh graced the occasion with his presence in the web-lecture.

Dr. Priyatosh Sharma, Chairperson, Department of History began the proceedings of the weblecture and introduced the theme and Dr. Ashish Kumar, NSS-Program Officer, welcomed the eminent speaker, Prof. Kaushal Kumar Sharma, and the guest of honour, Prof. Devinder Singh.

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In his lecture, Prof. Kaushal Kumar Sharma elaborated at length the various aspects of the New Education Policy 2020 and explained the roadmap that the stakeholders may follow to implement the recommendations and vision of the NEP2020 in the course of twenty years (up to 2040). He argued that historically the idea envisaged in Nai Talim and Posha have contributed to the development of NEP 2020 which aims to initiate the process of ‘Learning while Doing.’ Further NEP 2020 has also reversed the objective of colonial policy makers who sidelines vernacular and Indian ethos. Indian education aimed at holistic development of mind and body which NEP 2020 has endeavored to achieve.

Prof. Sharma urged the students to have a wholesome understanding of the subjects. However, Prof. Sharma also underlined the limitations of the NEP2020 that in spite of laying down the lofty vision fails to clearly chalk out the institutional mechanism, funding and the role of centre/state governments in the process of the realization of this vision. 

Prof. Devinder Singh, suggested the need of collective and collaborative efforts of different stakeholders in the Indian education system for the successful implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 in the years to come. He hoped the experiments like Navodhya and Mid Day have shown success and NEP 2020 might prove to be bigger step towards this direction.

Dr. Priyatosh Sharma, Chairperson, Department of History proposed the vote of thanks. The web -lecture was attended by more than 90 participants including faculty members of different departments of Panjab University, Colleges under Panjab University, and students as well as researchers.

Chandigarh December 22, 2020

The Centre For Academic Leadership and Educational Management (CALEM) Department Of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh and the Department of Computer Science and Applications are jointly organizing a seven-day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Basics and Applications’ from 22 -28, December, 2020. 

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The program started with the introduction to the programme by Dr. Anuj Sharma, Coordinator of the programme. He talked about the importance of Artificial Intelligence in Human Life. He stressed that AI needs attention from various disciplines to solve real life problems and fulfill India’s AI initiative. There were125 registered entries so far from 16 states and from various disciplines like pharmaceutical sciences, law, mathematics, computer science, social science, medical, commerce etc.  

The Chief Guest for the inaugural session, Prof. Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri,  Vice Chancellor, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, discussed that use of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence has increased tremendously in almost every field from past few years and it is benefitting the humans. He also stressed on the need to control the ability of artificial intelligence so that it should only be used for constructive purposes to serve the society.

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Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor ,Panjab University talked about the importance of AI for society. He also discussed that artificial intelligence has lots of opportunities in the coming time. He shared that Panjab University has been actively conducting extension activities, webinars, faculty development programmes etc. and in future also such programmes should be organized to give the future directions to the researchers. 

Earlier, Prof. Kirandeep Singh, Chairperson, Dept. of Education welcomed all the dignitaries and the participants. She talked about the increasing applications of AI in all the fields and stressed that this FDP will help the participants to gain knowledge about various artificial intelligence concepts and techniques. 

Dr. Jatinder Grover, CALEM Co-ordinator, Dept. of Education, Panjab University shared that CALEM organized 4 FDPs and trained about 1500 teachers for online education during the lockdown period. He discussed that such FDPs on AI will help teachers to practice these techniques in classroom and research as well.

 Dr. Rohini Sharma, Chairperson and Co-ordinator of the programme highlighted that DCSA has taken initiatives to contribute to impart the knowledge of Artificial Intelligence to all . She stressed that this faculty development programme will help the participants to learn multidisciplinary aspects of artificial intelligence and apply these concepts in their respective fields

The session concluded with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Prof. Anu Gupta, Dept. of Computer Science and Applications.