The VSSUT at Burla will very soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for an innovation-cum-incubation centre here. A group of academic staffs of the VSSUT led by Vice-Chancellor Prof Atal Choudhury has already met ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan and held a detailed discussion about the project, for which the ISRO would provide Rs 50 lakh in the first phase.
A team of ISRO representatives would come here in the last week of February to sign the MoU, VSSUT sources informed.
Notably, after knowing about the ‘sounding rocket’, developed by the VSSUT Innovation Club, getting a place in the Limca Book of Records, the ISRO selected this premier technical institute as an innovation centre. With this centre in place, the students here would get better scope for study and research in astronomical science.
It needs to be mentioned that Dr Sivan was to be felicitated in the recent convocation of the VSSUT, but he couldn’t come due to his busy schedules. Hence, a VSSUT delegation went to the ISRO for the purpose.
When contacted, VSSUT VC Prof Choudhury said, “The (proposed) MoU is to be cleared first by legal department of ISRO at New Delhi. And then it will be signed sometime in February-end or March first week.”
