Govt opens research projects for all higher education institutions; anti-plagiarism software to be made freely available

NEW DELHI, JULY 28: The Government of India has opened all its research projects for teachers and students of all Universities, earlier many were limited to centrally funded institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research(IISERs), National Institutes of Technology (NISERs) and Central Universities.

Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Prakash Javadekar speaking at the National Conference of Vice Chancellors of Universities and Directors of Higher Education Institutions said that the selection of candidates will be purely based on merit.

In order to check Plagiarism, Turnitin software will be made available at no cost basis to all Universities in the country.

Vice Chancellors of Central Universities, State Public Universities, Deemed to be Universities, State Private Universities, Directors of Central Institutes, such as IITs, IISc., IIMs, IISERs, IIITs, NITs and other central institutions participated in the National Conference.

The Minister said that this conference is different from previous ones because first time Ministry of HRD has invited not only VC’s of Centrally funded Universities and Directors of Central Institutes, such as IITs, IISc., IIMs, IISERs, IIITs, NITs but also invited all Vice Chancellors of State Public Universities, Deemed to be Universities, State Private Universities because our aim is to break the walls of separation for the betterment of the education sector.

Dr Vijay Bhatkar was felicitated by the Union HRD Minister on the occasion. He is one of most acclaimed and internationally acknowledged scientists of India. He is presently the Chancellor of Nalanda University. Prior to Nalanda responsibility, he was the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT Delhi from 2012 to 2017. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing, where he led the development of India's first supercomputer Param in 1990.