NIT-R signs MoU with Atomic Energy department

ROURKELA: In a bid to boost research activities in various engineering disciplines, the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT-R) has signed a MoU with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

With the signing of the MoU yesterday, the NIT-R students will be admitted in the M Tech programme of DAE and some of them will be given a job in the department directly while continuing their education, NIT-R director Sunil Kumar Sarangi said.

The selected students will get Rs 20,000 as allowance, Sarangi said.

A six-member team of senior scientists from the Atomic Energy department has reached here to formulate programme for research projects, Sarangi said.

NIT-R is the first institute in the state and seventh in the country to sign such a MoU with the DAE. Earlier, six IITs had signed similar MoUs with DAE.

Sarangi and S G Markendeya, scientific secretary of Board of Research in Nuclear Science department of Atomic energy signed the MoU at the NIT campus.