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TANUVAS aims to be research and training hub in south Asia

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Signs an MoU with American university for exchange programmes

— PHOTO: K.V. SRINIVASAN

INTERACTION: N. Balaraman, Vice-Chancellor, Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, with farmers at the Madras Veterinary College in Vepery on Sunday.

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CHENNAI: Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) aims to be the hub of research and training in south Asia. As a boost to the proposal, the University Grants Commission has allowed the university to admit 35 foreign students from the next academic year. The expertise of students will further training and research projects.

It also proposes to set up a multispeciality hospital at Nandanam. The Rs. 5-crore project is awaiting government approval, said Vice-Chancellor N. Balaraman on Sunday.

"The aim is to develop the university as the hub [of research] in the SAARC region and ensure that students from these countries come here and learn from us," he said.

From next year, five final year B.VSc. students would visit Michigan State University, U.S., for 45 days as part of internship. The university recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the American university for teacher and student exchange programmes. The first batch of American students finished their month-long training on Sunday.

The five-day international seminar on `Advanced veterinary practice in Medicine and Surgery' concluded on Sunday.

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