Utkal University to collaborate with 5 national institutes

BHUBANESWAR: Utkal University, the oldest university of the state, and 5 other institutions of national fame will create educational linkages between them to focus on educating, analysis, field work and sharing of concepts. A committee has been shaped to start out the programme.
The national institutions like Regional Medical Research Centre, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Institute of Physics, Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology and National Institute of Science Education and Research will collaborate with the Utkal University for the programme.

University vice-chancellor Soumendra Mohan Patnaik stated the principal clinical adviser to the Centre had advised the Union govt to make sure educational collaboration between universities and institutions of national fame for mutual benefit and academic growth. The Union ministry of human resource building decided on 10 leading universities of the country to start out the collaborations. It has chosen Utkal University and other national institutions from Odisha for this purpose, he added.

A committee has been shaped underneath the chairmanship of Patnaik to start out the academic collaborations. The ILS director, Ajay Parida, is the co-chair of the committee. Directors and professors of the national institutions are participants of the committee.

Convener of the committee Jagnehswar Dandapat, a professor of the university, stated the collaboration is not going to only help the students and students but in addition bring in a large number of contemporary concepts to strengthen the academic surroundings of the university.


"Through this programme, we can call their faculty members to guide our students and deliver lectures on a particular subject. Even our students can access laboratories and other resources of the national institutions," stated Dandapat.


He added, "Their students can also use our facilities. We can have research programmes and field works jointly. The institutions can share ideas between them on latest developments."


The ILS director stated they are going to also invite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bhubaneswar and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) right here and other prestigious institutions to participate in the programme. "Later we will sign memorandum of understanding with the institutions to formally start the initiative," he added.


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