IIT Roorkee to assist IIT BHU in setting up new Architecture and Pl'

IIT Roorkee will assist IIT BHU in setting up a new Department of Architecture and Planning, with the two premier institutes entering into a pact for collaboration in research and knowledge sharing for this.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for this was signed Thursday at IIT Roorkee, an official statement said.

According to the pact, the institutes will undertake activities which include exchange of scientific and technical information, collaborative research activities, faculty and staff visits, joint supervision of post graduate (including PhD) students, joint organisation of seminars and conferences and sharing the databank of information through their libraries.

"We hope that this MoU shall bring two of the oldest institutions of the country closer. As someone who has worked in both these great institutions earlier, it is indeed a momentous occasion for me personally" Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi, the director of IIT Roorkee, said.

Prof P K Jain, the director of IIT BHU, said, "