The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will host a two day Conference of Directors of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) at Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 29 and 30, 2014. This is the second Conference of Directors of NITs during the present presidency. The first Conference was organized in November 2013. Directors of thirty NITs will participate in the Conference. The agenda of the Conference includes steps required for deepening research and technological innovation for meeting national development goals; technology enabled learning; building international networks and linkages for quality improvement and initiatives for capacity development of faculty. An Action Taken Report on the recommendations made in the Conference of Directors of NITs 2013 will also be discussed during the Conference.
