S. Vishnu Sharma
IIT Guwahati is going to collaborate with NESAC to undertake several initiatives for development of north-eastern region and create a mass of skilled professionals in the field.
NESAC (North Eastern Space Application Centre) and IIT Guwahati signed an MoU to enable the collaboration between the two organisations on 28 June.
IIT Guwahati to collaborate with great NESAC
Some of the initiatives that would be taken up under this partnership include internship programs, joint degree programs, short-term training programs, student exchange programs and joint projects, among others.
A multi-disciplinary approach would be adopted to study ways to tackle disasters.
IIT Guwahati director Professor T.G. Sitharam spoke about the unique aspects about the collaboration.
This is a historic day for both IIT Guwahati and NESAC as on this day we make our long-standing intellectual relationship also in to a formal one, said IIT Guwahati director.
The opportunity is limitless for these two institutes to work together and achieving new heights in research, innovation and capacity development for northeast region, said Professor Sitharam of IIT Guwahati.
Joint Certificate programs, visiting Professorship for teaching few suitable courses along with IIT Guwahati faculty are few of the initiatives that both institutes could take forward, he said.
North East India is prone to various disasters namely flood, earthquake, landslide, and riverbank erosions, among others.
These disasters sometimes can become a roadblock to the growth of the region and to address these challenges in a more meaningful premier institutes of this region need to work together and collaboration is the key to success.
Dr. P.L.N Raju, director of NESAC elaborated about the partnership between IIT Guwahati and NESAC.
The signing of MoU with IIT Guwahati and specifically with CDMR (Centre for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction) at IIT Guwahati focusing on training education and research will further enhance NESAC in strengthening capacity building, training and research in this region, Dr. Raju
I am looking forward for a fruitful and highly successful MoU between IIT Guwahati and NESAC benefiting the society as a whole, he said.
Recently, COVID-19 pandemic has been a learning lesson, which showed that any form of disaster can affect a country’s growth.
However, the nation can improve and be prepared for future to such uncertainty through proper strategy and skilled manpower development.
To work in this direction, recently, IIT Guwahati has established a new Centre for Disaster Management and Research (CDMR) on the kind advice of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.
About IIT Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019.
At present, the Institute has eleven departments, five inter-disciplinary academic centres and four schools covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes.
The institute offers a residential campus to 412 faculty members and more than 6,000 students at present.
Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994.
The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 kms from the heart of the Guwahati city.
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IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings.
IIT Guwahati gained rank 41 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 395 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2022 released recently.
IITG has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2019’ declared by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).
IIT-G has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Government of India. Recently, IIT-G has been ranked as the top ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the Asia-Pacific region.