The George
Fernandes Institute of Tunnel Technology established by Konkan Railway
Corporation Ltd., at Madgaon, is set to get further strengthened with the
support from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
KRCL and IIT,
Bombay, entered into a memorandum of understanding to this effect at Mumbai on
Tuesday for technical collaboration. The corporation had already entered into
an MoU with ETH Zurich, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics
university in Switzerland this August.
While IIT,
Bombay, is recognised worldwide for the high-quality education and for
undertaking cutting edge research in various areas of science, technology,
engineering, management and humanities, KRCL has been a leader in construction
of transportation tunnels.
IIT Director
D.V. Khakhar and KRCL Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Gupta signed the
MoU at the former’s premises.
The pact seeks
to develop the tunnel technology institute into a world-class premier centre of
knowledge in tunnel and underground structure technologies. It also seeks to
provide opportunity to UG and PG students of the IIT to gain practical
experience.
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