The North Zone Vice Chancellors’ Conference of the Association of Indian Universities is being hosted by the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. The Conference will be attended by Vice Chancellors from the universities of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh etc.
The communities and governments across the world are now looking towards Indian traditional knowledge as the biggest source of strategies for sustainable development. Thus, the Knowledge resources of India are becoming the prime movers of the society around the globe. The purpose of this Conference is to revitalize our higher education system with inputs from traditional knowledge and contextualizing the past to prepare a strong foundation for the future. The Conference seeks to reiterate the significance of traditional knowledge systems in the contemporary time and in the times to come. The resolutions of the Conference will be intended to   prepare the Indian higher education system to face the challenges of future in a much prudent way.  Some important issues that have been identified for discussion in the Conference under a broader theme --Traditional Knowledge Systems of India are:

This Conference has stupendous significance as the Vice Chancellors who are expected to participate in the deliberations are the leaders of the higher education.  We are expecting meaningful dialogues and deliberations among the galaxy of intellectuals which will certainly go a long way in carving a niche and open the new vistas in the arena of Higher Education.