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The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras to open new avenues of growth and excellence for its students and researchers.o)..
The five-year MoU signed by Sudhir Kumar Jain, vice-chancellor, BHU and V Kamakoti, director, IIT-Madras, will facilitate formal interaction and collaboration between both institutions..
The MoU provides for exchange of PhD students between the two institutes by enabling them to spend up to one semester in the other institute for research activities..
The two institutes, granted the status of Institution of Eminence under the IoE scheme of the government of India, have also agreed on shared use of research infrastructure by their researchers and faculty members..
Kamakoti said, As IIT Madras focuses on interdisciplinary education, this engagement with BHU will undoubtedly open many areas of joint collaboration ranging from music, languages, philosophy to Sciences and Technology..
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