DW BUREAU / chandigarh The Centre For Academic Leadership and Educational Management (CALEM) Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh and the Department of Computer Science and Applications are jointly organizing a seven-day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ? Basics and Applications' from 22 -28, December, 2020. The program started with the introduction to the programme by Dr Anuj Sharma, Coordinator of the programme. He talked about the importance of Artificial Intelligence in Human Life. He stressed that AI needs attention from various disciplines to solve real life problems and fulfill India's AI initiative. There were125 registered entries so far from 16 states and from various disciplines like pharmaceutical sciences, law, mathematics, computer science, social science, medical, commerce etc. The Chief Guest for the inaugural session, Prof. Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, discussed that use of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence has increased tremendously in almost every field from past few years and it is benefitting the humans. He also stressed on the need to control the ability of artificial intelligence so that it should only be used for constructive purposes to serve the society.Prof Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University talked about the importance of AI for society. He also discussed that artificial intelligence has lots of opportunities in the coming time. He shared PU is actively conducting extension activities, webinars. (editor@dailyworld.in)