MoU signed between Cotton University and NIELIT Guwahati

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• Jun 8, 2023 | Kabir Chakraborty

As part of the MoU many add-on courses, vocational /skilling courses and internship programs will be offered by NIELIT Guwahati for the students of Cotton University.

Digital Desk: Cotton
University, Assam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Guwahati
(an organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,
Govt. of India) on 7th of June, 2023 as part of an academic collaboration
between the two organizations. The MoU was signed by Prof. Diganta Kumar Das,
Registrar Cotton University and Dr. Yumnam Jayanta Singh, Executive Director,
NIELIT Guwahati in the presence of Prof. Ramesh Ch. Deka, Vice Chancellor and Prof.
Ganesh Chandra Wary, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Cotton University.

As part of the MoU many
add-on courses, vocational /skilling courses and internship programs will be
offered by NIELIT Guwahati for the students of Cotton University. Moreover,
joint activities will be conducted for employment and entrepreneurship
development in the emerging areas of IT and Electronics for them. Courses and
internships in the technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI),
Blockchain, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, AR/VR, Cyber Security, IoT,
Machine Learning (ML), Solar Power Technologies, Consumer Electronics products
repairing/ maintenance, Bioinformatics and Translational Bioinformatics shall
be offered to the students with high-end software and hardware platforms. In addition, NIELIT Guwahati shall also conduct job-oriented courses such as
course on Programming technologies (GO, Kotlin, Julia, R etc.) Node JS and
React JS, Full-stack development, UI/UX, software testing etc. in active
collaboration with various industry partners of NIELIT such as IBM, Microsoft,
TCS etc.

During the MoU signing
meeting, possibilities of the adoption of NIELIT’s courses as vocational/add-on
courses under NEP 2020 were also discussed. Training facilities can also be
extended to the adopted villages of the University to reach the rural
masses.

The MoU signing event was
also attended by Imopishak Thingom, Mridul Pachani and Dr Saurov Mahanta from
NIELIT Guwahati and Dr. Eeshan Kalita, HoD, Department of MBBT, Cotton
University