 I am very pleased to announce the presence of a very important person amongst our mates. He is sitting right now like a normal participant to this workshop. His name is Mr. Praveen Prakash, he is the joint secretary in the ministry of HRD and he is also the director of this important mission. I have been requesting him that if he finds time if he could visit one of the remote centers and see for himself how the workshop is going on and also briefly address us. We have Dronacharya institute, Dronacharya group of institute in Greater Naila and we are fortunate to have our mission director Mr. Praveen Prakash personally present there. I would request him to kindly address all the 8600 participants of this workshop. Over to you Dronacharya group of institutions. Patak sir and all my friends, I have joined as mission director around 9 months back and which I have the last 9 months, Professor Patak and all of you together have created a history in the in higher education area, years to come whenever the technology enable learning and teaching in our country will be talked about this project will always be remembered. For many reasons number one is a general feeling used to be that a technical education subject interaction cannot happen remotely. This project the methodology the processes which Patak sir has established in this project has clearly shown that in technical education sector also we can have this remote methodology. The second is the processes the learning which we had over a period of last 3 years in this project will definitely go in a long way in launching the other projects related to technology enable learning and teaching. As you are aware that Professor Patak took it as a challenge and the ministry through this challenge to him that can you train to begin with 1000 teacher in one session he took it a challenge and said we will go and do 10000 teachers. On the behalf of the ministry I place on record our deep appreciation whenever we see him his energy levels at this age also is a real source of inspiration and motivation for all of us also have to commit ourselves that years to come we will also commit ourselves to the cause of technical education higher education in our country. I really don't know how many of you have visited his office in IIT Bombay he has when I visited his office in IIT Bombay he has a photograph of two persons on his table and I asked him why did you keep and they are much younger to you to you and you have kept their photographs of these two gentlemen on your table. He said all the faculty members who are in engineering education today they had also an option to go to industry anybody who is a faculty member in engineering education today in our country has an option to go abroad make huge money work abroad enjoy those that lifestyle abroad or in India also join a private sector but these people those who are faculty members in engineering education have given all that and have joined this sector for a cause that's a high appreciation he has for all of all of us who are in teaching faculty and I think that's is driving him. You also must be knowing that he is launching the first massive open online course in month of July the last week of July and in the history of Indian higher education it's going to be the first massive open online course we wish him all the best for the massive open online courses as you must have also heard from him many times we from the ministry side we are committed to a better connectivity must have also read in the paper that there is the ambitious project of the ministry of government of India or national optical fiber network and our vision and intention is that in year two in two to three years every gram panchayat all the two lakh fifty thousand gram panchayats in our country should have dark fiber he must reach to all these two lakh fifty thousand gram panchayats for that as those of you who follow telecom sector from every service provider government collects five percent of their net revenue we collect as a universal service obligation fund is a fund of around 25 to 30,000 crore which has been built and this fund will be used now every district in our country and some of the not all the blocks but majority of the blocks have a fiber but our vision is we want to take that fiber to every college in the in in every college in every gram panchayat in our in our country which means in other words every school and every college of our country I visualize a situation in year 2016 or 17 where again we will be attending professor father training program but then every faculty member of every engineering college will be attending that program from their own college because we will be having that time for every engineering college not 10 MBBS connectivity not 20 20 MBBS connectivity at least 400 to 500 MBBS connectivity I've since long since I joined this post I was very keen to attend one of the one of the live session and I got this opportunity we're also thinking of bring because we are also planning sessions not only in engineering education we're hopeful that that the lessons learned from this we will take it to other training programs as you must be aware that UGC through their administrative staff colleges also conduct a lot of training programs in service training programs for the lecturer lecturers faculty members of other than engineering education sector the lessons from you whatever that's what I will say all of you who are participated in this program not only you are the gainers but you also were the guide all each one of you were the guide for for a bigger programs which are going to follow we are looking at a subject commerce subject we are looking at management we are looking at agriculture so we have we are in process of selecting five six sectors and there also we will will have the same methodology with this word again wish professor father and his dedicated team I interacted with them and I went to IIT Bombay those who work day and night who are dedicated the cause of talk to teacher project I wish all of you all the best the whole team all the best and many more success to talk to teacher project thank you so much Mr. Prem Prakash for those very nice words we are happy to hear them but as you yourself said we have run many mice and we have many hundreds of mice to go I wish that your dream of connecting not just every engineering college but in fact every college every vocational training institution and eventually every high school at least to be connected so that these technological advances and the great learning from the important projects that mission has so far conducted could be extended to all aspects of education we will definitely work with you towards that and the fact that we have achieved something the 8600 people some of whom are sitting with you but all other sitting at 270 other remote centers are live examples of the successful implementation of this great vision by M.H.R.D. so I let me thank M.H.R.D. for these initiatives and let me thank you for very ably and very energetically leading this mission I think we will work together towards making many big things