MOU signed between Southern Naval Command and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Coimbatore : To augment academic and research collaboration, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Southern Naval Command (HQSNC) (Headquarters), and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at the University campus at Coimbatore.

Coimbatore : To augment academic and research collaboration, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Southern Naval Command (HQSNC) (Headquarters), and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at the University campus at Coimbatore.

The MoU was exchanged between Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command (SNC) and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Speaking on the occasion, Vice Admiral AK Chawla congratulated Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for its yeoman service to the nation in the field of science and technology.

Emphasizing on the essentiality of such partnerships in academia between the armed forces and civil establishments, as well as in pursuing the mission of ‘Make in India’, he said "Southern Naval Command being the Training Command of the Indian Navy, focuses on providing quality training to all personnel of the Navy. To leverage the potential of external expertise in different technical domains and to nurture a ‘collaborative training’ model, the Indian Navy has reached out and inked Memoranda of Understandings (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 (CUSAT) in 2002 under which the university recognizes the course curriculum of all training establishments and awards M.Tech, MSc, PG Diploma, BSc and Diploma certificates to the trainees on passing out,” he noted.

The Southern Naval command has inked similar MoUs with the IITs at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Guwahati, IISc and IIM Bangalore, IISST Thiruvananthapuram, BITs Pilani, DA-IICT Ahmedabad, SVNIT and IIT Gandhinagar, Andhra, Goa and Mumbai Universities, Jawaharlal Nehru University, DIAT Pune and PSG College of Technology Coimbatore for mutual collaboration in professional and technology training, faculty expertise and joint research and development.

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