Bhubaneswar, July 12: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVNL), Ministry of Defence, Chennai, for joint collaboration in research, consultancy, advisory, education, training and projects.
As per the MoU, which will be in force for a period of five years, SOA and AVNL, a Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU), will collaborate in research based projects with a clear engagement rationale including deliverables outlined.
The MoU was signed between Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda, Vice-Chancellor of SOA and Mr. Biswaranjan Pattanaik, Director (HR) of AVNL.
AVNL also make campus recruitment of graduates at SOA selecting them for full-time employment or as interns while employees of AVNL can enroll in various degree programs of the Deemed to be University such as M. Tech and Ph.D. which are offered by the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), SOA’s faculty of engineering and technology.
Besides, AVNL can join the SOA Center for Innovation and Incubation (SOA-CII) to leverage the start-up ecosystem and work with the start-up companies collocated with SOA.
Mr. Ranjan Kumar Bal, General Manager (HR) of AVNL, Prof. Manas Kumar Mallick, Director, ITER and Atal Incubation Centre, Mr. Pramod Kumar Panda, Chief Administrative Officer, SOA, Prof. Renu Sharma, Additional Dean (Student Affairs), ITER, Prof. D.N. Thattoi, Additional Dean (Academics), ITER, Prof. Saroj Acharya, Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, ITER, Prof. Binod Kumar Sahu, Head of Department, Electrical Engineering, ITER, Prof. Ayaskanta Mohanty and Prof. Manoranjan Das, both faculties of the Institute of Business and Computer Studies (IBCS), SOA’s faculty of management sciences, were present during the signing of the MoU.
