From the Founder’s Desk Achyuta Samanta Founder KISS

The congress aimed to provide a platform for young students and researchers to present their
research work and discuss priority issues in enabling science and technology applications for
human welfare. The young students got an opportunity to interact with a galaxy of eminent
scientists and policy experts in the field of Science and Technology. Young research scholars
and students from B.Tech, M.Sc., M.Tech, Research Fellows, and Post Doctoral students took
part in the Indian Youth Science Congress.
The theme of the meet was ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ with focus on
various goals, including 'to end hunger', 'to achieve gender equality', 'climate action and 'life
below water'.
13) Smart Village Conference, KISS, Cambridge University and Neeti Foundation Join
Hands to Work on R&D
Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences (KISS), Neeti
Foundation and the Centre
of Development Studies,
University of Cambridge
have agreed to work jointly
for the common cause of
research, advocacy and
capacity development for
promoting education, health
and improved livelihoods
and living standards,
specially for less privileged
children of India, their
families and communities. A
memorandum
of
understanding (MoU)
paving way for this was
signed among the three
organizations on April 9,
2016.
A Seminar on Smart Village
was also organized on the
sidelines of MoU signing
ceremony. Professor Sailaja
Fennell of Cambridge
University; Mr. Suraj Kumar,
MoU signing with Cambridge University and Neeti Foundation
Dr. Krishnan Kumar, Commissioner BMC
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