Education is indeed basic to the creation of an atmosphere in which human beings can meet one another on a plane of friendship and equality.

The National Education Day day is celebrated across India on November 11to commemorate the birthday of Bharat Ratna Maulana Abul Kalam Azad born this date in 1888, a great freedom fighter, an eminent educationist and the First Education Minister of Independent India.

Azad’s thundering lines “Every individual has a right to an education that will enable him to develop his faculties and live a full human life. Such education is the birth right of every citizen” which are excerpts from AIR Broadcast, New Delhi, September 30, 1953 continues to reverberate in everyone’s heart.

No one has doubt that Information is just bits of data while Knowledge is putting them together and Wisdom is transcending them. Moulana Azad had played a key role in establishing the UGC and Indian Institute of Technology – IIT at Kharagpur which is one among top ranking institutions in India today.

Sangam University which finds its roots in ITM Bhilwara established in 2003 celebrated National Education Day by participating in ISTE Workshop on “Aakash for Education” under the National Mission on Education through ICT MHRD Government of India and conducted by IIT Bombay during 10 – 11 November 2012. The organizing team comprising of Mr Nitin Kothari, Mr Dharni Dhar Mishra, Mr Rishi Bhatnagar and Mr B L Pareek was led by Mr Dheeraj Jain of E&C Department. Faculty members and students across various departments of Sangam – ITM enthusiastically participated in the proceedings.

Prof BR Natarajan President – Vice Chancellor Sangam University addressed the gathering and urged them to contribute their very best for educational transformation which is a prerequisite for economic and social transformation of the nation at large.

The team at Sangam also joined the National Education Day event on 11 November 2012 at Vigyan Bhawan in which President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the Aakash Version 2.0 Tablet in the presence of Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Jitin Prasada and Dr Shashi Tharoor, Ministers of State for Human Resource Development apart from Dr. Karan Singh, India’s designated Representative to UNESCO, and Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General UNESCO.