Conference of Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence
Honourable Prime Minister inaugurates the Conference
Research for Resurgence Foundation (RFRF), in association with IGNOU, IGNCA, UGC, ICSSR, AICTE, JNU and SGTU organized a Conference of Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence on 29th September 2018 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Chief Guest Honourable Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi inaugurated the Conference by lightning the lamp along with Guest of Honour Union Minister for HRD Dr. PrakashJavadekar; Special Guest Minister of State Shri. Satyapal Singh; Shri. Ram Bahadur Rai, President IGNCA Trust; Dr. Sachchidanand Joshi, Chairman RFRF & Member Secretary IGNCA; Prof. D. P. Singh, Chairman UGC; and Prof. Nageshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor IGNOU. Over 400 Vice Chancellors, Directors and Academicians, IIT and IIM Directors, Heads of the Research Institutes and other Eminent Academicians from across the country participated in the Conference.
In his inaugural address, Honourable Prime Minister said, “Education should not be confined to just teaching in classrooms. There is one common point in the education vision of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya – character building. Character is more important than knowledge for a person. Without character, a knowledgeable person becomes more dangerous to society than a wild animal. Life building, character building and innovation are the three pillars of education system. Education should be innovative and research-based.