Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the 12^th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2016, a global conference and exhibition, held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, from 10^th to 12^th November, 2016. The summit was inaugurated by Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on November 10^th.

On the inaugural day, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India, Shri. Prakash Javadekar, visited the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham booth and interacted with the AMRITA delegation, which consisted of Dr. Sankaran K., Registrar; Prof. Kamal Bijlani, Director, Amrita E-learning; Dr. R. K. Suresh, Chairman- B. Tech. Admissions; Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman, Amrita IQAC and Mr. Renjith Menon from Amrita E-learning.

More than 1000 national and international delegates, including Indian and foreign university presidents, vice-chancellors and deans from 60 countries, such as the EU, UK, Canada, USA, Africa, Middle East, SAARC and CIS attended the summit. The theme of the summit was, ‘Education for Tomorrow: Learn in India-Learn for the World.’