category Regional,, tags Regional,, DW BUREAU Eminent personalities from diverse fields, like education, industry, media, literature, fine arts entrepreneurs, interacted with faculty members and students of different courses. The occasion was an event Collaborate and Innovate: Bridging Industry and Academia organized by the Rayat Bahra University here today. Dr Parvinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor of the university, elaborating the objective of the event, said the University Grants Commission had taken a new initiative to bring industry and other professional expertise into the educational institutions. For this it had mooted a new concept under which professionals from different fields would be made Professor of Practice . This would expose the students in higher education institutions (HEIs) to real world practices and the industry would also benefit from the graduates who would have been trained in relevant skills when they completed their course of study, he added. Chancellor of Rayat Bahra University Gurvinder Singh Bahra welcomed the eminent guests and expressed optimism that deliberations at the meeting would prove to be fruitful both for all stakeholders. Speaking on the occasion, Bahra said that the university felt pleasure in conferring the honour of professor of eminence to Prof Rupinder Tiwari,Prof S S Bari,Prof K K Bhasin, Prof Manmohan Gupta, Prof Anil Monga,Prof B S Ghuman, Dr Manjeet Kaur ,Jyoti Seth , Prof Rajat v Sandhir, Dr Vinod Nagpal, Dr V K Vats, Prof Jaswinder Bhalla, Prof E Nahar Prof Anil Monga, from Panjab University, said that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) means institutions that train highly qualified specialists and scientific and pedagogical personnel for various branches of the economy, science, and culture. (editor dailyworld.in)