The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Model Curriculum for UG and PG Level Engineering Courses launched on January 24 2018, has been designed and framed by leading experts from premier technical institutes and industries to give a boost to innovation & research and motivate students and faculty to take up projects in newly emerging areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, etc.

The Government is implementing the following schemes/ programmes as a measure to support higher education institutions with the necessary technology and infrastructure to facilitate innovation:

i) AICTE Start-up Policy: The AICTE launched the Start-up Policy in November 2016. The policy follows the “Start-up India” action plan, Govt. of India, to guide and promote student-driven innovations & start-ups in AICTE-approved institutions nationwide.

ii) Smart India Hackathon: The Government, in association with AICTE, Persistent Systems & i4c, is organizing the “Smart India Hackathon (SIH)” as a non-stop digital product development competition to harness the creativity and expertise of students.

Today, the Minister of State (HRD), Dr Satya Pal Singh, gave this information in a written reply to a Lok Sabha question.

Source: Press Release
Release ID: 1526612
PIB
Ministry of Education
Date: March 27, 2018

Union Minister for Railways & Coal addresses the Conference organized by CRIS on AI for Innovations in Consumer Experience & Service Delivery.

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform Indian Railways in terms of safety; passenger amenities; better revenues, growth & efficiency,” said Shri Piyush Goyal while addressing the AI Conference in New Delhi today. The Union Minister for Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal, was speaking at the valedictory session of the Conference organized by the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), an Information Technology arm of the Ministry of Railways today. The Minister said Artificial Intelligence is nothing to fear or feel threatened by but to be used for our benefit. Harnessing AI for organizational and social good can yield far-reaching benefits to our country and Indian Railways, the Minister emphasized. “Artificial Intelligence has to be harnessed to find digital innovations for better customer interface and better service delivery. Artificial Intelligence is about creating trains with brains”, Shri Goyal added. The Minister hoped that Indian Railways would benefit from the experiences shared by the experts who participated in the Conference today.

CRIS organized a day-long conference with invigorating technical sessions on Ártificial Intelligence for Customer Experience and Service Delivery innovations. Indian Railways plays a vital role in India’s growth story. The challenge is to improve revenues and enhance customer experience while improving the efficiency and reliability of operations. The speakers discussed how artificial intelligence can help improve customer experience and increase payments.

It was noted that AI can help in route optimization, real-time train movement monitoring, crew fostering, improving the price advantage of rail freight, and improving logistics chain integration. Speakers also highlighted the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence in predictive maintenance to improve asset management, Crowd management, chatbots for consumer interaction in different regional languages, and IoT sensors to detect concerns on tracks and locomotives.

The conference was inaugurated by Shri Ashwani Lohani, Chairman of the Railway Board & Shri Mohd Jamshed, Member of Traffic, Railway Board, senior board members, and Railway officials. The confeConferencedistinguished speakers from the IT Industry.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Ashwani Lohani, Chairman of the Railway Board, said, “Artificial intelligence has the potential to create an ecosystem that makes the lives of humans more comfortable. In this context we need to explore how these technological developments can be garnered to create a more pleasurable rail travel experience. Future has unlimited possibilities, and Railways being a mass transporter, any effort in this direction will yield big benefits.” CRB added that despite technology, empathy in finding solutions for passenger comfort has to be the driving spirit.

Indian Railways is poised to utilize Artificial Intelligence in multiple ways. Applying Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques can significantly benefit customer experience, process optimization, and asset maintenance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of a human brain function by machines. AI machines can perform human mind activities, such as logical reasoning, learning, and self-correction.

Source: Press Release
Release ID: 1526336
PIB
Ministry of Railways
Date: March 24, 2018

Benefits of Article Writing

Disseminating information to many people, advertising, and publicity are the main benefits of writing articles. When something is written on a topic and a person who reads it gains some knowledge and passes it on to others, it results in popularity.

Effect of Article Writing on Business Website

The above concept is also applied in the field of business. To succeed in your business, you need a good customer database; reaching them with your business products and services is the first. So, article writing is considered an essential factor here. When articles are written on your business website about your business organization/products. You are manufacturing or selling, and regarding other important things, people read articles and know about you and your business. People will discuss the same with others, which leads to advertising and publicity of your business, which converts them into your customers and finally results in a successful business.

Nowadays, almost everyone has a business or commercial website for their organization, and the main reason behind building the same is its online presence and popularity. So, articles are added to your business website, which may provide excellent and satisfactory results.
Writing and publishing articles on the right blogs, directories, and websites is essential as they provide good publicity for your products and services. Areas or blogs where your essays are uploaded or published play an important role.

If you want your business website to get noticed, there are several ways of doing the same, but article writing and publishing the same is the most prominent way. Using the same method, if someone searches for your business organization or site via a search engine, your site reaches the top of search engine results and creates brand awareness among several people. Overall, writing articles and uploading or publishing those on the right blog positively affect business websites.

Improvising Different Articles

It is required that every article you write must be different from other articles, and you must decide the directory of the article and where it will be posted. There are various article directories for every article. Thousands of links are generated on your site if various articles about your products and services are continuously written, which leads to improved search results.

What are the areas for publishing the articles?

The areas where your articles are getting uploaded or published. Posting in an appropriate place is also essential unless publishing the same fails. Areas or blogs where your essays are uploaded or posted are websites, blogs, RSS feeds, directories, social bookmarking sites and others.

Blogs or businesses offering the same products and services as your business offers, you may connect or join them in the discussions, provide some good input, and offer excellent and valuable advice. This will allow you to gain some integrity in your area of expertise or your working field and see that hundreds and thousands of links are generated back to your site.

Everyone has their subject, and I write an article on them weekly. After a few months, it is the best option that leads your website to crawl search engines because every article you write will generate a link to your site.

With all this, there is one more important option which is necessary for you to remember:: links given at the end of your article do not point to your website’s home page; they can point to other particular web pages in your website, which is known as the deep linking.

For instance, if your organization sells clothes for females, you may have the links point to your home page or any other internal-specific web page on your site, such as Skirts. Then, you may have the option to write an article on the Skirts and generate the link to the page where your article on Skirts is written.

As E-Commerce rapidly grows and every business organization is selling their products and services online, allow people to learn or gain something from your knowledge as you are an expert in your subject, get a few forums in the industry to which your organization belongs, talk about this much which leads to offering benefits to you and thus your website.