Why in JGU

Why in JGU?

Why in JGU?

JGU is a befitting home for a pioneering initiative like an India Institute because it is a pioneering university that stands out among its peers on many counts. Thanks to its prime location in the National Capital Region of Delhi and proximity to the think tank, academic and media ecosystems, there cannot be a better location for JII. Besides a sprawling 100-acre campus in Sonipat, JGU also has a centrally located state-of-the-art office in the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi, which has ample space for conferences, lectures, trainings and gatherings. 

JGU’s international orientation and connections are unparalleled. It has active partnerships with more than 400 top-ranked universities of the world spread over 70 countries and is globally recognised as a young and innovative Indian university with impeccable credentials. JGU has the intellectual resources and international standing to ensure that JII has scale and impact to take the message of the Indian century not just to stakeholders within India but also across the world. An ambitious endeavour like JII which aims to project India’s rise in a convincing and independent manner requires a well-endowed and credible vector that only a top private university like JGU can provide.

JII will be bigger and more multidisciplinary in scope and scale than any of the existing sixty-plus Research Centres at JGU. It will draw upon the pre-existing intellectual expertise and resources of Research Centres as well as its highly qualified global faculty base of over 1200 scholars, and also involve external thinkers and scholars of high repute, to generate knowledge in a variety of issue-areas that are relevant for the Indian century.

Since its founding in 2009, JGU has won many prestigious research and training grants and contracts from international agencies, such as the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the US State Department, the United Nations Development Programme, the European Commission and the Government of Australia. True to its tagline as a ‘private university promoting public service’, JGU has also imparted training and capacity-building to more than 1000 civil servants, corporate executives and civil society members in various disciplines including Journalism, Financial Management, Law and Corporate Governance, Leadership and Professional Development, Project and Process Management, Economics, Marketing and Sales, Technology, Innovation, Strategy, Government and Public Policy, Taxation, Diplomacy and International Relations.

Because of these strengths of JGU, JII will be able to team up with friends of India abroad and systematically build capacities of professionals from different fields about various aspects of the India Story and the Indian Century.

JGU is also known internationally for hosting short-term multidisciplinary ‘India Immersion’ programmes for visiting groups of foreign students. As of 2024, JGU had imparted India Immersion modules to over 600 young people from a variety of countries, including Australia, China, Israel, Syria, Taiwan, Vietnam, the UK and the USA. JII will scale up inbound short-term study programmes for thousands of additional foreign stakeholders so that they get a fair and objective picture of India and become brand ambassadors for India in their respective countries. 

Special attention will also be devoted to training Overseas Citizens of India (OCI), who are eager to nurture India consciousness among their younger generations and want them to visit India, learn in-depth about the India Story and reconnect with the heritage and values of their ancestral homeland. Special ‘India Immersion’ courses tailormade for the diaspora, in collaboration with prominent diaspora associations abroad, will be one of the priorities at JII.

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Book Launch “India’s Moment:
Changing Power Equations around the World” authored by Prof. (Dr.) Mohan Kumar, Former Ambassador to France and Bahrain

Date: 18 December, 2023
Chief Guest: Dr. S. Jaishankar, Hon’ble
External Affairs Minister, Ministry of
External Affairs

Event: 7 4th Annual All India Commerce Conference

Date: 13-15 December 2023
Chief Guest: Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, Honorable Lieutenant Governor of Delhi (Inauguration); Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Governor of Haryana (Valediction)

Book Launch “India’s Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World”. Author- Prof. (Dr.) Mohan Kumar

Date: 23rd November, 2023 
Chief Guest: H.E. Mr. Vikram K. Doraiswami, High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom

Event: Soli J. Sorabjee Excellence Award and Schorlarship and Memorial Lecture

Date: 14 October, 2023
Chief Guest: Hon’ble Mr. Justice K.V. Viswanathan (Judge, Supreme Court of India)

Event: The G20 Universities Impact Summit: Implementing SDGs and Beyond jointly organized by the Association of Indian Universities, Times Higher Education and O.P. Jindal Global University

Date: 23 August 2023
Chief Guest: Dr. Subhas Sarkar, Minister of State for Education of India and Shri V. Muraleedharan, Hon’ble Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India.

Event: Inaugural Khaitan & Co. Endowment Lecture on “Reforming the Legal System”

Date: 11 August, 2023
Chief Guest: Dr. Dibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India.

Event: India’s G20 Presidency: Shaping Priorities and Defining Opportunities

Date: 17 April, 2023
Chief Guest: Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency

Event: Distinguished Public Lecture on ‘India’s Presidency of G20: The Way Forward’

Date: 15 April, 2023
Chief Guest: Mr. Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa of India

Event: W orld Universities Summit 2023 on “Universities of the Future: Building Institutional Resilience, Social Responsibility and Community Impact in G20 countries”

Date: 27-31 March 2023
Chief Guest: Shri V. Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs of India (Inauguration); Minister of State for Education of India, Dr. Subhas Sarkar (Valediction)

Event: A merican Bar Association (ABA) India Conference 2023 on “Law in the Age of Glocalisation: Convergence of India and the West”

Date: 3-5 March 2023
Chief Guest: Hon’ble Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India; Mr. R. Venkataramani, Attorney General of India; Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India; Ms. Lubna Shuja, President, The Law Society of England & Wales; Mr. Marcos Rios, Chair, ABA International Law Section

Event: 8th Dr. L.M. Singhvi Memorial Lecture on “Universal Adult Franchise: Translating India’s Political Transformation into a Social Transformation”

Date: 2 December, 2022
Chief Guest: Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Hon’ble Chief Justice of India and Mr. Jagdeep Dhankhar, Hon’ble Vice President of India

Event: Lucknow Sustainability Conclave on “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: Role of Universities & Civil Society in Protecting the Environment” & Release of the Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2021

Date: 17 December, 2021
Chief Guest: Smt. Anandiben Patel, Hon’ble Governor, Uttar Pradesh

Event: Seminar on “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: Role of Universities & Civil Society in Protecting the Environment” & the launch of Sustainable Development Report 2021

Date: 24 October, 2021
Chief Guest: Shri Dharmendra Pradhan; Hon’ble Union Minister of Education; Shri Bhupender Yadav; Hon’ble Union Minister for Environment; Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Hon’ble Minister of State for Environment.

Event: Webinar Series on Contemporary Reflections on International Law on the theme “International Judicial Progress during Covid-19”

Date: 19 October, 2020
Chief Guest: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, President, International Court of Justice; Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dalveer Bhandari, International Court of Justice; Hon’ble Mr. Philippe Gautier, Registrar of the International Court of Justice; H.E. Mr. Venu Rajamony, Ambassador of India to Netherlands.

Event: WWF-JGU Joint Conference on “Adapting Environmental Laws For Effective Climate Response”

Date: 27 March, 2019
Chief Guest: Honble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta, Judge, Supreme Court of India; Hon’ble Dr. Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court of India

Event: Distinguished Public Lecture by Army Chief, Gen Bipin Rawat

Date: 5 March 2018
Chief Guest: General Bipin Rawat UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army

Event: JGU’s 7th Convocation Ceremony and Founder’s Day Celebrations

Date: 7 August, 2018
Chief Guest: Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Hon’ble Vice President of India

Event: B ook Launch “The Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International”

Date: 17 July, 2017
Chief Guest: Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble President of India; Professor (Dr.) Virander S. Chauhan, Acting Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC); Nobel Laureate Professor (Dr.) Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor & Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University.

Event: Release of the State Higher Education Plan Haryana 2016, in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education, Government of Haryana

Date: 24 May 2016
Chief Guest: Mr. Ram Bilas Sharma, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Government of Haryana; Mr. Vijay Vardhan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of Haryana