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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, are jointly organising an 'International Conference on Urban Transformations, Youth Aspirations, and Education in India' on February 20-21, 2020. The two-day conference intends to evolve an inter-disciplinary engagement on the nature of urban transformations and the youth in India while understanding policy dynamics in these areas. It will also attempt to understand the challenges to educational access and skills provision for the youth and the constraints of rural-urban migration, social caste background, and peri-urban locations.
Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, will be the Chief Guest at the inaugural program. Patwardhan is a biomedical scientist and a Fellow of the National Academy Sciences (India) and the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India). He has worked on several policy-making bodies including Task Forces of National Knowledge Commission, Planning Commission and has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, Geneva.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine published by Elsevier and is on the editorial boards of many reputed journals. He will speak at the inaugural panel on education along with Prof Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar; and Prof Pankaj Chandra, Vice-Chancellor, Ahmedabad University.There will also be two keynote lectures on each day of the event. Prof Craig Jeffrey, Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Director, Australia India Institute, will deliver the first keynote lecture titled "Fresh Contact: Empowering Youth Innovators in South Asia" on February 20.
The second keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada, titled "Aspiration, Opportunity, Mobility: the prospects for development among India's youth", on February 21.
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