NIT-R signs MoU with Atomic Energy Department

In a bid to boost research activities in various engineering disciplines, the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT-R) has signed a MoU with Government of India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). With the signing of the MoU yesterday, the NIT-R students will be admitted in the M. Tech. program 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. A six-member team of senior scientists from the Atomic Energy Department has reached NIT-R to formulate program for research projects.

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.

Source: The Economic Times