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The Central University of Karnataka (CUK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Survey of India to beforehand collaboration successful research, grooming and cognition speech crossed aggregate disciplines. R.R. Biradar, Registrar of CUK, and Avanish Kumar, Director, Karnataka Geospatial Directorate, Survey of India, signed the MoU arsenic representatives of their respective institutions and exchanged copies successful the beingness of Vice-Chancellor Battu Satyanarayana successful Kalaburagi connected November 13.
CUK Vice-Chancellor Prof. Battu Satyanarayana said that collaboration betwixt academia, probe institutions and industries was the request of the hr for the country’s progress. “Today, inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to probe and improvement are precise important. This MoU volition payment our Departments of Geography, Geology, Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mathematics and Physics. All these departments indispensable enactment unneurotic with the Survey of India to marque this collaboration a success,” helium said.
Prof. Satyanarayana added that successful the contiguous skill-based cognition economy, practical, industry-oriented learning was essential. “This MoU volition assistance our students summation hands-on acquisition and get industry-ready skills. It volition besides supply opportunities for our probe scholars and teachers to instrumentality up probe and improvement projects with the Survey of India,” helium said.
Avanish Kumar, Director of the Karnataka Geo-Spatial Directorate, Survey of India, highlighted the organisation’s pivotal relation arsenic the nodal bureau for geospatial information nether the Department of Science and Technology. The Survey of India, established successful 1767, had evolved with affluent traditions implicit the centuries. “Under the National Geospatial Policy 2022, the Survey of India bears a peculiar work to guarantee that the country’s domain is explored and mapped suitably to supply foundational geospatial information for integrated development, contributing to nationalist advancement and sovereignty,” helium said.
Prof. Vijayakumar, Director of the University-Industry Hub, said the MoU would pave the mode for associated task proposals, speech of method expertise and technological cognition done visits, seminars and collaborative workshops. It would facilitate pupil probe internships, dissertation enactment and capstone projects nether associated mentorship, promote co-authored publications and information successful conferences, and beforehand shared usage of probe infrastructure, datasets and laboratories.
He added that the concern would besides enactment the plan and periodic revision of under-graduate and post-graduate curricula successful geoinformatics, distant sensing, GNSS, cartography and surveying technologies, ensuring alignment with manufacture standards and nationalist geospatial policies. It would besides impact Survey of India experts successful program reappraisal committees, boards of studies and world advisory boards.
Mahalingam, the nodal serviceman from CUK, N. Ramprasad from the Survey of India, Prof. Prashant (Dean, School of Earth Sciences), Prof. Amarendra Matsa (IQAC Director), Prof. R.S. Hegadi, Prof. Shrikantayya, Prof. Paramesh, Tejasvi Lakkundi, Lingadevaru, Rajeev Joshi, Sandeep, Janardhana Reddy, Archana Kujur and Nitin B. were among those contiguous during signing of the MoU.
