Annual Convention of Professional Bodies-Can we Make them more Fruitful?

The 26th Annual conference of ISTE was held at Jaipur, the pink city of Rajasthan, on 4-6th Jan. 1997. More than 1000 delegates, men and women attended the conference drawn from all the states. These men and women were practioners in the field of Engineering Education - Teachers, HOD's, Principals, Administrators, Policy makers: from Polytechnics, Engineering Colleges, REC's, I.I.T.'s, Directors of Tech. Education, Vice-Chancellors of Tech. University, top officials from AICTE & MHRD. It is a rare occasion when all practioners involved in the system, at different stage of their career, young and old, even senior citizens who are still active workers, come together for about 2-3 days, and apply their mind to the ongoing developments in the Engineering Education system.