{"id":316797,"date":"2019-11-16T04:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316797"},"modified":"2019-11-16T04:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:34:22","slug":"rashtrapati-bhavan-to-host-conference-of-directors-of-iits-nits-and-iiest-on-november-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rashtrapati-bhavan-to-host-conference-of-directors-of-iits-nits-and-iiest-on-november-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashtrapati Bhavan to host conference of Directors of IITS, NITS and IIEST on November 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304676 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kovind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind.jpg 434w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-410x420.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/>Rashtrapati Bhavan will host a conference of the\u00a0Directors of IITs, NITs and IIEST, Shibpur\u00a0on November 19. This Conference is part of regular interactions of President Ram Nath Kovind, with such\u00a0institutions in his capacity as visitor to 152 Central Universities and institutions of higher learning, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The agenda items of the conference will include &#8211; deliberations on\u00a0challenges \/ opportunities along broad parameters on which NIRF rankings are based; participation and contribution of alumni in activities of the institutes; steps to increase representation of women in faculty and student intake; ways to involve students in nation building; promotion of research, innovation and entrepreneurship; filling up of vacancies, including faculty from foreign universities;\u00a0\u00a0and review of major infrastructure projects, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from the Directors of 23 IITs, 31 NITs and IIEST, Shibpur, the Conference will be attended by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Secretary (Higher Education), Secretary, Department of Science and Technology and Chairman AICTE, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtrapati Bhavan will host a conference of the\u00a0Directors of IITs, NITs and IIEST, Shibpur\u00a0on November 19. This Conference is part of regular interactions of President Ram Nath Kovind, with such\u00a0institutions in his capacity as visitor to 152 Central Universities and institutions of higher learning, the statement said. The agenda items of the conference will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[2144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316798,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316797\/revisions\/316798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}