36th Annual Report (2023-24)

108 National Education Policy (NEP) Orientation and Sensitization Programme: 2024 February An NEP Orientation and Sensitization Programme under the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme was held online from 1st to 15th February 2024. For the February programme, the resource persons were G. Nagarjuna, IISER Pune, on holistic and multi-disciplinary education; Mayank N Vahia, TIFR Mumbai, on Indian knowledge systems; Narayan C Talukdar, Assam down town University and K J George, IIT Jodhpur, on higher education and society; Dhruba J Saikia, IUCAA and Soumendra M Patnaik, University of Delhi, on academic leadership, governance and management; Sameer S Sahasrabudhe and Rohan Dasgupta, IIT Gandhinagar, on A screen shot showing a section of the participants of the NEP Orientation and Sensitization programme held in 2023 November University, Dibrugarh University, Tezpur University and Cotton University delivered interactive talks on stellar astrophysics, observational astronomy, solar system, galaxies and the intergalactic medium, gravitation and cosmology. The workshop had rigorous hands-on sessions which included usage of Stellarium, analysis of National Education Policy (NEP) Orientation and Sensitization Programme: 2023 November The NEP Orientation and Sensitization Programme under the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme was held online from1st to 10th November 2023. The resource persons included Malhar A. Kulkarni, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, who spoke on Indian Knowledge Systems; Malish C. M., Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies who spoke on Student Diversity and Inclusive Education; Milind Sohoni, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas and Anush Kapadia, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, both of whomspoke on Higher Education and Society; Sarmistha Pattanaik, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, who spoke on Research and Development. They are all from IIT Bombay. Narayan Sharma, Cotton University and Aniket Sule, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education spoke on Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education; Garima Malik, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration and Dhruba J. Saikia, IUCAA, spoke on Academic Leadership, Governance and Management. Bhupendra N. Goswami, Cotton University, spoke on Research and Development, Yogendra Pal, NIIT University on Information and Communication Technology for higher education, while SantoshMehrotra, Jawaharlal Nehru University discussed Skill Development. The Programme was attended by about 30 participants, who each wrote two essays on any two of the presentations as part of their evaluation. A screen shot showing a section of the participants of the NEP Orientation and Sensitization programme held in 2023 November astronomical data through SDSS Sky Server and other virtual observatory tools and visualization of concepts in stellar astrophysics through Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). An observation session in the Gauhati University Observatory was also organized. Another interesting component of the workshop was a series of short talks delivered by the participants on topics which they are teaching. These talks were presented in front of the resource persons who interacted with the participants. The workshop was coordinated by Sanjeev Kalita (ICARD Coordinator, GU), Dhruba J Saikia (MMTTC, ACE, IUCAA) andSowgat Muzahid (IUCAA).