Three-day annual Technology festival ‘Cognisance 2017’ commenced on Friday.
The theme of this year's festival is ‘Eureka 2.0’ which according to the organisers draws inspiration from the Government of India’s initiatives such as Making India a Digital Economy and Clean Ganga mission.
Cognisance 2017 was inaugurated by Deputy Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Dr S C Sharma on the day.
In a video message, the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu exhorted the students to give their ideas for the betterment of railway facilities.
“Technology is being used to make the railways more effective and sound, we are multiplying our services with the help of technology",
he said.
The IIT Roorkee Director, Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi said that India has made a very good progress in science and technology in recent years. Our country has done wonderful work in space technology, atomic energy and missile technology, he said. The director informed that the institute is trying to become a cashless campus which will become an example and leave positive impact on the people.
The organisers informed that technical competitions, theme based events, lectures by eminent personalities, exhibitions and other event would be organised during the festival.
On the inaugural day Indian Environmentalist and Stand-up Artist Vasu Primlani and founder and CEO at Greendust Hitendra Chaturvedi delivered lectures which were highly appreciated by the students.