NAVY-MOU-AMRITA

Southern Naval Command, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham sign MoU
Kochi, Dec 19 (PTI) A Memorandum of Understanding was
Wednesday signed between Southern Naval Command Headquarters
and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for academic and research
collaboration.
The MoU was signed between Vice Admiral Anil Kumar
Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval
Command (SNC) and P Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, Amrita
Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a Defence release said here.
The MoU, signed in the universitys campus at
Coimbatore, would encompass fields of mechanical engineering,
electronics and communication, computer science and other
areas of mutual interest such as bio science, medical and
cyber security, the release said.
Vice Admiral AK Chawla emphasized the essentiality of
such partnerships in academia between the armed forces and
civil establishments towards developing new technologies,
providing out-of-box solutions to complex technological issues
as well as in pursuing the mission of Make in India.
He said signing of the MoU between the academic
establishment and Indian Navy will form the foundation for
exchange of ideas and development of new technologies in the
future.
Southern Naval Command being the Training Command of the
Indian Navy, focusses on providing quality training to all
personnel of the Navy which has reached out and inked MoUs
with some of the best institutions of excellence in the
country.
The first of such MoUs was inked with Cochin University
of Science and Technology in 2002 under which the university
recognises the course curriculum of all training
establishments and awards MTech, MSc, PG Diploma, BSc and
Diploma certificates to the trainees on passing out.
Similar MoUs have also been inked with institutions
like the IITs at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Guwahati, the
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