The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) brought 25 of its member companies entered into memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with 25 top Central institutions on the occasion of Visitor’s Annual Conference, organised recently at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. This conference was presided over by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee who is the Visitor to all 114 central institutions in the country.
Covering a wide range of sectors such as smart cities, renewable energy, green roadways, power solutions, mixed signal circuit design, fabrication and aluminium diecasting, the MoUs have brought some of the best known companies in direct contact with academic institutions. The Hyderabad-based electronics and instrumentations Elico limited, which has signed an MoU on smart cities with NIT Warangal; Cadila Pharmaceuticals has signed the MoU with National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Ahmedabad; Micro Inter-connexion Private limited has signed the MoU with NIT Goa; Blue Star limited has tied up with IIT Madras and School of Planning and Architecture Delhi, and Ahmedabad-based aluminium diecasting company Veena Diecasters and Engineers has tied-up with VNIT Nagpur.
A total of six companies, including Bharat Heavy Electricals limited and construction major MN Dastur, have signed MoUs with Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur which was earlier known as Bengal Engineering and Science University. Tata Power signed MOU with NIT Delhi and NIT Srinagar. Among central universities, two have signed MoUs with Jamia Milia Islamia with Viacom 18 in the area of media and entertainment and Central University of Haryana has entered into collaboration with footwear major liberty Shoes.