BIT seeks access to MBAs

Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, has appealed to the University Grants Commission (UGC) to reintroduce the concept of double degree programmes for engineering students who have completed their undergraduate degrees.

BIT vice-chancellor S K Mukherjee said the proposal, if accepted by UGC, would help MBA degree holders do degrees in engineering and allied disciplines.

He was speaking at BIT's fourteenth annual convocation in where UGC chairman Arun Nigavekar was present.

The vice-chancellor said BIT had been chosen as the Indian participating institution in the Asia Link Programme, funded and supported by the European Commission, for advanced research in wireless and mobile communication technologies.

By March this year, BIT Ranchi, would have an international centre for advanced research in these specialisations.

Degrees and diplomas were handed over to 1,445 under-graduate and postgraduate students at the convocation attended by the chairman of BIT's board of directors G P Birla, Jharkhand Governor Ved Prakash Marwah and Nigavekar.

BIT was founded by Late B M Birla five decades ago and attained the status of deemed university in 1986. It has consolidated its role as a cost-effective professional education institute of high quality.

BIT has set up extension centres outside India, in Bahrain and Muscat. Within the country, extension centres were located in greater Noida, Allahabad, Jaipur, Kolkata and Noida.