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VC urges teachers to offer consultancy to industry

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Words of encouragement: H.P. Khincha, Vice-Chancellor of VTU (centre), at the inauguration of the seminar at CIT in Gubbi, near Tumkur, on Thursday.

TUMKUR: H.P. Khincha, Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), on Thursday, asked the teachers at technological institutes to start offering consultancy to industry.

Inaugurating a national seminar on “Emerging trends in engineering and technology”, organised by Channabasaveshwara Institute of Technology (CIT) at its campus in Gubbi, near here, Dr. Khincha said teachers could no longer afford to remain complacent.

He said: “Although I do not want them to grow greedy for money, I urge them to be highly competitive in their areas of specialisation and become the most reliable sources of advanced information.” Stating that the industry should always look towards academics for technological improvements, Dr. Khincha told the teachers: “You have only one choice before you and that is to improve your technological expertise in your areas.”

He said the industry would be too willing to partner with teachers. He urged them to go industry-friendly and derive maximum monetary benefits for themselves and to their institutes.

Dr. Khincha lauded the efforts of CIT for venturing to start a Centre for Information Technology and Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and a manufacturing unit in nano technology and embedded systems. He said: “CIT is relatively young (six years old). It has its campus in a rural area. The advantage is that students and teachers can devote their full time, with no distraction from the city buzz. The atmosphere is very conducive for intense study, research and satisfactory achievements,” Dr. Khincha said.

He asked students to seize opportunities in the field of nano technology. “Nano technology is gaining significance in all areas of science, technology, research, industry and even food production. It is destined to play a big role in electrical and electronics fields also,” he said. Dr. Khincha said the U.S. had invested $2 billion to develop nano technology. Russian countries proposed to spend $1.8 billion. India would spend one thousand crores of rupees. Fifty-five experts from ten universities in the country are taking part in the seminar.

Thirty-five technological teams presented their papers on the first day and they included teams from Anna University, Chennai; Kerala University; Jawaharlala Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad; and Periyar University, Tamil Nadu and VTU.

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