ArdorComm Media Bureau
September 2, 2026
Q: You are attending the Digital Bharat Education Conclave. When you heard this word, what made you witness this event and accept our invitation to attend this event?
A: Well, I think the organisers have done a wonderful work and they have reached out to leaders from all over the industry and invited eminent educationists. So, I think that I felt very honoured to be a part of the same as a panelist, and that’s why I accepted the invitation because it’s always good to be on a platform where there are other educational leaders because you always get to learn a lot from other leaders of the same field.
Q: Can you tell us more about your institution?
A: So, I am Dr. Shalya, the Chief Executive Officer. I am from the Subharti Group of Institutions. It’s a university in Dehradun also and in Meerut, and we have 180-plus courses. We have 18 faculties in the university at Meerut and a similar structure in Dehradun also.
We are—why I am calling myself a group is because we are in the industry of hospitality, in the industry of defence, in the industry of media and also in the industry of education. We also have a group of hospitals in rural as well as in urban areas. And we are running a charitable hospital also. We are also training personnel for the defence industry, and eventually, the students get selected for defence.
So, we are in the field of education basically, but we are also in the field of other things. That’s why it’s a whole Subharti Group now.
Our motto is Shiksha, Seva, Sanskar and Rashtrata. Why I am saying this is because we are not just training students into academia but with a lot of sanskar and nationalism.
Q: In today’s era, where a lot of things are going on with new-age learning and artificial intelligence, every panel is talking about it. Where does empathy stay, ma’am? And how should students also be taught to balance their fast-moving pace of life towards the traditional and the roots of Indian culture?
A: So, like I started my speech here, and how I am talking to you with “Jai Hind”, that is how our institution is. So, all of us say “Jai Hind” to each other. So, that is how nationalism and sanskar are built in our education system in my university.
So, once we are inculcating the value system, I think that is how we have to balance. What today, also in a lot of panels, was discussed is that the students are forgetting their value system. So, we have to work at home and at the grassroots level to get the value system back.
So, yes, all the education systems have to work about the NEP, they have to work about AI, they have to work about the latest curriculum and also with that, they will have to work about the IKS. We have introduced Rashtra Bodh as an IKS system, which the UGC is talking about also.
Since 2008, when my university was started, since then we are talking about the values. So, we talk about sanskar in our university, and we have a Subharti Day which is celebrated in the memory of one national hero who lost his life in the memory of nation-building.
Like Netaji, we mostly talk about him. We know Netaji, but there are many heroes also whom we don’t know. So, at our institute, if you come, Rani Gaidinliu will be celebrated, Avantibai Lodhi will be celebrated, Ashfaqulla Khan will be celebrated.
So, we are celebrating Netaji also, and we are celebrating a lot of unsung heroes of India about whom nobody has heard. So, that is how we are contributing to nation-building.
Because if our youth don’t know our actual history and the actual heroes’ sacrifices, then how will they respect India?
Q: You have witnessed this event. What was the takeaway? What was the learning from today’s event?
A: See, I think more such events should happen because we talked a lot about AI in this event. And what we have to understand is about AI ethics.
What we talk about AI usually is how AI is integrated into the curriculum, what we should teach students about AI. But what we are forgetting is AI is a double-sided sword, and how AI ethics is also important.
We have to teach our younger generation about that AI is a tool, but you have to learn to use it for your benefit. Wherever you will let go of the grasp, then it can harm you also.
So, this is what we have to teach our children, the younger generation and Gen Z, as they call themselves today. It’s very trending, so I should say it. So, that’s what I feel is important.
Q: I am very happy to share with you and maybe even emotional that ArdorComm Media is in its fifth year. Proudly, we have sailed through many difficult times and good times as well. Today, what we are doing is organising so many events pan-India, bringing a lot of educators, academicians and corporates from school education to higher education and skilling. So, any message would you like to give to ArdorComm Media on its anniversary year?
A: Well, first of all, I will congratulate you, and I will also tell you one message which my father gave me: that a journey always has to be full of ups and downs.
So, because your journey was of ups and downs, now you will have only ups. So, all the best to you, and keep doing such good work.
Not an easy task. So, you did a wonderful job, and keep doing it. All the best. Jai Hind.