Five new Postgraduate Programmes were launched in the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) on Friday.
Minister Employment & Technical Education and Training Pratap Kesari Deb declared the launch of the new PG programmes, Power System Engineering, Mechanic Design, Biotechnology, VlSI & Embedded System and Computer Science & Engineering. All these programmes will have 18 seats each.
The programmes will start functioning in the College of Engineering & Technology (CET) campus for the time being and later it will run in the Academic Complex coming up at Chhend at Rourkela. The Chhend Campus would be ready by the end of this year, said Minister Employment & Technical Education and Training Pratap Kesari Deb .
The Minister inaugurated the new ultramodern laboratory Complex, a boys’ hostel and a girls’ hostel in the CET campus, which became functional from Saturday. These infrastructures cost Rs10 crore.
The Minister announced that the State Government would provide funds for setting up of a new academic campus and another boys’ hostel with 400 seats at a cost of Rs 8 crore.in BPUT