READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

y way of conferring it the status of Deemed to be University in August 2006. Like
any Central University, NUEPA is fully maintained by the Government of India.
With specialization in policy, planning and management in education, NUEPA
is the professional wing of the Government of India. The prime concerns of NUEPA
are with capacity building and research in educational policy, planning and
management through research, training, consultancy and dissemination. NUEPA's
origin can be traced to UNESCO Regional Center for Educational Planners and
Administrators in 1961-62, in 1965, it was renamed as Asian Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration. On the completion of the 10-year contract with
UNESCO, the Government of India took it over and renamed the Institute as National
Staff College for Educational Planners and Administrators in 1970. Subsequently the
institute was renamed as National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration in 1979 emphasizing on research besides staff development.
Promoting regional cooperation and international understanding in the field of
human resource development is one of its major goals. Sharing of experience and
resources, exchange of expertise and information, are some of the steps that NUEPA
takes in the direction of achieving such collective self-reliance among the developing
countries. Both national and international delegates are encouraged to visit the
institute. Study visits, regional seminars, workshops and short and long term training
courses in educational planning and administration are organized for them. In the past,
foreign participants have come from a wide array of regions including South, East and
West Asia; Far East; Latin America; the Pacific; East, West and Southern Africa;
Canada; Australia; USA and UK. NUEPA has also organized special tailor-made
course for the benefit of international delegates e.g., from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,
China, etc.
NCERT is an apex resource organization established in New Delhi on 1 st
September 1961 as an autonomous organization registered under societies
Registration Act of 1860 to assist and advise the Central and State Governments on
academic matters related to school education in India. It is fully funded by the
Government of India and provides academic and technical support for improvement
of school education in India. It undertakes research, development, training, extension,
publications and dissemination, and exchange programmes. NUEPA and NCERT
both organizations are pursuing some key approaches to communicate knowledge to
bring qualitative change in the academic research, training, transfer and dissemination
of knowledge and services to achieve the desired goals. In this article, some
significant approaches of knowledge communication such as arrange talks and
discussions, lectures (teaching in classrooms), environment of debates and
conversations, conferences, workshops and seminars, capture and appreciate the
talents at workplace, sharing among intellectuals, strengthen knowledge repository,
intranet, extranet and internet, etc. have been discussed which will reinforce the
intellectuals to communicate and share the knowledge and expertise among other
employees across the organization. These approaches will also encourage the
academicians to contribute their intellectual works, skills and expertise to strengthen
the knowledge base to the future generation.
Now the question arises why knowledge is pre-requisite for academic
excellence? How it can be created, communicated and shared to grow the tree of
knowledge across the organization. Burk (1999) stated, “knowledge management is
not a project that begins and ends, but an ongoing and evolving change in the way an
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