TWO DAYS WORKSHOP ON “VIRTUAL LABS” ORGANISED BY IIT DELHI HELD AT GNA UNIVERSITY, PHAGWARA.
28-02-2018GNA University joined hands with IIT Delhi as a nodal center since June 2017 based on the academic facilities and recent technologies being used in the institutions. IIT Delhi organized 2 days workshop was held on 26-27 February, 2018 for the students of engineering and technology at GNA University.
A hands-on session of virtual lab was provided to students of all engineering branches during these 2 days' workshop. 
Virtual lab was designed in 2009 by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to sustain the national mission of education by providing online access to various engineering labs. Main motive of this workshop is to spread the information about virtual labs so that maximum no of students from various colleges can get the benefit of this mission.
S. Gurdeep Singh , Pro-Chancellor, GNA University shared his views about this workshop saying that such workshops are for betterment of student to interface them with the technological advancements going around in their domains. He said that main objective is to enhance the students’ knowledge by equipping them with recent technology labs through virtual labs interface which will also help to achieve the “Digital India” mission of honorable Prime Minister Sh. NARENDRA MODI.
Delegates from IIT Delhi, Er. Prateek Sharma, Er. Ashish Rajan visited the University for this Endeavour. They provided the knowledge about the virtual lab and solved student queries during hands on session. Prof. V.K. Rattan, Vice-Chancellor, GNA University expressed gratitude to have delegates from IIT Delhi delivering workshop in the campus and also appreciated the efforts of Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) for providing Virtual labs designed by IIT Delhi to various colleges.
Dr. Vikrant Sharma also expressed the thanks to IIT Delhi for sending their resource persons to the GNA University campus and also ensured that such endeavors of technology sharing will continue in future as well to make our students at par with IIT standards.
