Karnataka: VTU will launch research promotion scheme, says V-C

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VTU Vice-Chancellor S. Vidyashankar, MRIT main   K.S. Abhinandan and others astatine  the International Conference connected  Communication, Computer, and Information Technology astatine  Mysuru Royal Institute of Technology Srirangapatna connected  Friday.

VTU Vice-Chancellor S. Vidyashankar, MRIT main K.S. Abhinandan and others astatine the International Conference connected Communication, Computer, and Information Technology astatine Mysuru Royal Institute of Technology Srirangapatna connected Friday. | Photo Credit: M.A. SRIRAM

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) Vice-Chancellor S. Vidyashankar connected Friday said that the assemblage volition soon motorboat a Research Promotion Scheme to promote its module members to absorption connected product-oriented research.

Mr. Vidyashankar was speaking aft inaugurating an International Conference connected Communication, Computer, and Information Technology (IC3IT-2025) astatine the Mysuru Royal Institute of Technology (MRIT) successful Srirangapatna. The league was co-sponsored by the IEEE Bengaluru section and IEEE Mysuru.

The Vice-Chancellor said that India was among the largest producers of engineers, and the country’s endowment was making immense publication crossed the globe. “But erstwhile it comes to research, it is confined to conscionable publishing papers and efforts should beryllium made to construe oregon person probe into products that amended lives, particularly of the poor,” helium added.

The challenge, Mr. Vidyashankar said, lies successful ensuring probe outcomes scope the grassroot.

“Today, overmuch of our probe remains confined to journals. The existent question each researcher indispensable inquire is — what is the societal interaction of my work?”, the Vice-Chancellor added.

Mr. Vidyashankar referred to the advancement successful the tract of connection exertion and said that contempt specified advances, distant parts of India inactive conflict with basal net access.

“During the pandemic, students had to ascent trees to get net entree and be online classes. We indispensable innovate technologies that tin span specified gaps,” helium said.

In all, 180 method papers were presented during the day-long conference. The accepted papers volition beryllium published successful the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, providing planetary visibility to the authors and their affiliated institutions, according to the organisers.

The league is aimed astatine fostering collaboration betwixt academia, research, and manufacture and IC3IT-2025 served arsenic a level for academicians, probe scholars, and professionals to speech innovative ideas and sermon the latest advancements successful communication, Computer Science, and Information Technology.

Ravichandra Kulkarni, Chair, IEEE Mysuru, and Dean (Research), MIT Mysuru; K.S.Abhinandhan, principal, MRIT; and N. Nakul, vice-principal, MRIT; were among those present.

Published - October 24, 2025 08:34 p.m. IST

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