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IIT Delhi to host industrialists

IIT Delhi to host industrialists

by | May 25, 2021 | News

IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi

New Delhi : The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will hold its first ever Industry Day on Saturday where industry leaders will apprise the faculty of their needs and expectations from the premier technology institute.

“Our faculty will listen to what these industrialists are saying and will see to it what are the opportunities in the industry, what are the challenges they must meet,” Anurag Rathore, Associate Dean, corporate relations, IIT Delhi, told reporters at a preview held at the institute on Wednesday.

“There will be posters competition… 250 posters will be displayed. The projects which will be displayed have been screened for their value to the industry.”

At least 25 industry leaders including former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chief and current NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat and Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of the Birla group are slated to speak at the event.

The academics and student researchers will also display their inventions and projects, which are “available for transfer” at the industry-academia rendezvous.

The event will see projects, ongoing and finished, based on five themes — defence, environment, affordable healthcare, smart cities and energy.

Some of the projects which are scheduled to be displayed or briefed about at the event include bio-artificial skin substitute for second degree burn injuries and mini-buses fitted with a modulated internal combustion engine conducive for using bio-fuel such as hydrogen, methanol, ethanol — causing almost zero emission.

“It is important that the research which is being done in the labs should benefit industries. The industry must know what is happening in our labs,” M. Balakrishnan, a professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the institute, said.

He said although many students are building projects in association with industries, it will be some time before the real start-up boom comes about here.

Around 200 firms have registered so far for the event.

—IANS

Ravi Shankar slams Communists for calling ‘exploiters’

Ravi Shankar slams Communists for calling ‘exploiters’

by | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Buzz, News

Ravi Ravi ShankarKolkata:(IANS) Hailing industrialists for creating employment, spiritual guru Ravi Shankar on Sunday blamed the Communists for labelling businessmen as exploiters.

“The Communists have labelled industrialists as exploiters. Instead of looking at industrialists as one creating jobs for thousands, the Communists have labelled them as exploiters. In fact, this has been etched into the psyche of West Bengal and Kerala,” Ravi Shankar said at an event organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He blamed the Communists for driving away industrialists and causing strikes.

“A businessman takes crores of rupees as loans to sustain an industry and creates jobs. Instead of looking at that, they (Communists) make him feel ashamed and embarrassed to the extent that he has to run away.

“Not only that, every now and then there is strike. Why? Because the guy is an industrialist, hence an exploiter,” he said.

Asserting that the psyche against industrialists was far from the truth, the spiritual leader called upon the industry and the government to work together for the development of the society.

“This psyche is far from the truth. We need to turn this around and that can happen only when the media, faith-based organisations, the industry and the government work together,” he added.