25 CII cos sign MoUs to firm industry-academia collaboration

Giving a push to industry-academia collaboration in research and curriculum development, 25 member companies of CII have signed agreements with as many top central institutions in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee.
In all, forty-five pacts were signed yesterday at Visitor's Annual Conference at Rashtrapati Bhavan here. The conference was presided over by the President.
"Covering a wide range of sectors such as smart cities, renewable energy, green roadways, power solutions, mixed signal circuit design , among others, the MoUs have brought some of the best known companies in India in direct contact with academic institutions," CII said.
These include Hyderabad-based Elico Limited's MoU on smart cities with NIT Warangal; Cadila Pharmaceuticals' MoU with National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Ahmedabad; Micro Interconnexion Pvt Ltd MoU with NIT Goa.

Besides, there were Blue Star Limited's tie-up with IIT Madras and School of Planning and Architecture Delhi and Ahmedabad-based Veena Diecasters & Engineers collaboration with VNIT Nagpur.
A total of six companies, including BHEL and construction major MN Dastur, have signed MoUs with the newly-constituted Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, earlier known as Bengal Engineering and Science University.
Energy-major Tata Power signed MoUs with two institutes -- NIT Delhi and NIT Srinagar. Among central universities, two have signed MoUs with industry -- Jamia Milia Islamia collaborated with Viacom 18 in the area of media and entertainment and central university of Haryana tied up with footwear major Liberty.