PM Modi To Inaugurate VAIBHAV Summit Today; Here’s How It Aims To Help Researchers And Academicians

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the Vaishvik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit which is going to be held from 2 October.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 'VAIBHAV Summit' which is a platform that brings together overseas and resident Indian researchers and academicians. A statement released by the PMO elaborates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Vaishvik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit on October 2 at 6:30 PM via video conferencing according to a statement released. The summit aims to bring Indian-origin researchers and academicians from across the world and from within the country to a single platform to debate and collaborate to strengthen academic and science and technology (S&T) base in India for global development. The Prime Minister will inaugurate via video conferencing. The global virtual VAIBHAV Summit will be for overseas and resident Indian researchers and academicians, it will be conducted from October 2 to 31, 2020. The summit is organized by 200 academic institutes and S&T departments and will be led by the Principal Scientific Advisor of the Government of India. In a tweet, Prime Minister expressed how he was looking forward to the summit, 'Looking forward to tomorrow's Vaibhav Summit, which brings together scientists as well as researchers from the Indian diaspora.' Here's more about the summit

• VAIBHAV Summit involves multiple levels of interactions among overseas experts and Indian counterparts over a month-long series of webinars, video-conferences, etc. The aim is to form collaborations to strengthen the science and technology base in India.
• More than 3,000 overseas Indian origin academicians and scientists from 55 countries and more than 10,000 resident academicians and scientists are being expected to participate in the summit.
• Over 1,500 panelists from 40 countries, 200 leading Indian R&D and academic institutions will virtually deliberate in 18 different areas and 80 topics in more than 200 deliberation sessions.
• The concluding session will be held on the occasion of Sardar Patel Jayanti, October 31, 2020.