Two-day vice-chancellors' conference at Rashtrapati Bhavan from February 4

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee will host a two-day conference of vice-chancellors of 39 central universities from February 4.

Mukherjee has convened the conference for deliberating on action on previous recommendations; steps to create an eco-system for research and innovation with participation of industry and research institutions; capacity development of faculty, creating international and national networks, adoption of choice based credit system etc, a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

The President is a visitor to these universities. This is the third such conference of central university VCs.

Mukherjee has also been convening regularly conferences of Directors of NITs, IITs, IISERs and IISC, it said.

Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani, Ministers of State for Human Resource Development; Chairman, University Grants Commission and Vice Chancellors of 39 Central Universities will attend the conference.