Number of Participants: 60 
Date: 08th April 2020 
Time: 11:00 AM 
Organizer: MHRD, AICTE 
Topic Name: India's efforts for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic 

Students & Faculty of REVA University, Bangalore attended the Leadership Talk Series with Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India on 08th April 2020 11: 00 AM. 

In this Talk series Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD Innovation cell and Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India discussed the following points: 

• Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India Explained what are all the necessary steps are taken to fight against Covid -19 by Govt. of India. 
• Also Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India Explained how Government officials are working towards to trace the primary and secondary contacts Covid 19 patient and explained How Arogya Sethu App works and what are all the benefits of Arogya Sethu application is having. 
• Also explained how the City Science Clusters are working towards Fight against Covid -19. 
• City Science Clusters are available in Bangalore, Pune etc.
• Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India also explained what all necessary steps are taken towards innovative ideas related to Covid 19.
• To select or shortlist the ideas related to Covid 19 ideathon new committee is formed and Dr. Vinod & Dr. Vijay are the committee members. 
• To fund selected ideas funding support are taken from BIRAC, RAPID, CSR Funding etc. 

We would like to thank MHRD Innovation cell –AICTE and Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD Innovation cell for organizing such valuable session. We also thank Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of India for the valuable inputs. We also thank our Honorable Chancellor Dr. P. Shyama Raju Sir for providing all facility for such events. We also thank Vice Chancellor Dr. S.Y. Kulkarni, Registrar Dr. M. Dhanamjaya, for providing all the facilities, support and encouragement towards the sessions. We also thank Dr. Kiran Kumari Patil, President, REVA IIC for Involvement for taking up to encourage the students towards this sessions.