West Bengal-based self financed university - The Neotia University (TNU) today signed a MoU with Frost & Sullivan Inc to collaborate in setting up biotechnology parks in India and developing enterprenuership.
University vice-chancellor A S Kolaskar said the biotechnology parks will be set up in states like West Bengal and Rajasthan and impart unique entrepreneurship program.
TNU, set up last year, has a strong biotechnology human resources development program, while Frost & Sullivan Inc has expertise in planning and developing biotechnology parks in countries outside India.
"Both will work together with the state and central government's department of biotechnology to not only establish biotechnology parks but to create industry specific and industry ready human resources," Kolaskar said.
Global president of Frost and Sullivian Inc, Aroop Zutshi in a statement said F&S has signed the MoU with TNU because it is able to take fast innovative decisions and have the potential to become tomorrow's Stanford, MIT, and Harvard.
Kolaskar said the unique proprietary modular program developed by GIL University (Malaysia) of Frost&Sullivan Inc will immensely help young to budding entrepreneurs in this part of the country.
"Being the biggest competition of the kind for
architecture students, it is a great achievement," said Prof Nishant Manapure, Director FOA. "We are proud of her. Vishnu is one of the bright students and we are extremely thrilled at her achievement. She has brought laurels not only for the department and Manipal University, but also to the country," Prof Nishant said and added, "She makes full use of the creative and intellectual platforms provided at Faculty of Architecture.
We are proud of her."
Being from Chennai, Vishnu based her essay on a script taken from the lives of hapless children being taken care of by Karunalaya, a social service organization run by Dr Paul Sunder Singh, which transforms the lives of these ill-fated children of Chennai's beaches, streets, railways stations, bus stops and harbor. The two shelters run by Karunalaya is home to 36 boys and 29 girls. Vishnu gives a complete analysis of everything about the children. She portrays their past and present effectively in the essay and describes of the changes in their lives in the new setting.
About Manipal University
Manipal University is synonymous with excellence in higher education. Over 28,000 students from 57 different nations live, learn and play in the sprawling university town, nestled on a plateau in Karnataka's Udupi district. It also has nearly 2500 faculty and almost 10000 other support and service staff, who cater to the various professional institutions in health sciences, engineering, management, communication and humanities which dot the Wi-Fi-enabled campus.
The University has off-campuses in Mangalore and
Bangalore, and off-shore campuses in Dubai(UAE) and Melaka (Malaysia). The Mangalore campus offers medical, dental, and nursing programs. The Bangalore campus offers programs in Regenerative Medicine. The Dubai campus offers programs in engineering, management and architecture, and the Melaka campus offers programs in medicine and dentistry. Every institute has world-class facilities and pedagogy, which are constantly reviewed and upgraded to reflect the latest trends and developments in higher education.
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