The institute will also be adopting trees chopped during the construction of the highway across central India. The adopted trees will be transplanted on 200 acres of the forest area of the IIT Indore campus with the assistance of forest department.
IIT Indore final year students to provide technical consultancy to NHAI
A group of final-year civil engineering students of the Indian Insititute of Technology (IIT) Indore will work with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to provide technical consultancy. The institute will also be adopting trees chopped during the construction of the highway across central India. The adopted trees will be transplanted on 200 acres of the forest area of the IIT Indore campus with the assistance of forest department.
IIT Indore has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the NHAI, that will cover all the technical consultancy including improving the quality of construction, alignment corrections and other services in central India. The civil engineering department of IIT Indore will be the nodal point for all the engagements between the institute and the NHAI.
"Seventh-semester students, especially those in the civil engineering branch, will undergo a selection process by NHAI for internship. The selected students will be actively involved in the project and they will be visiting sites across the state along with the NHAI team," IIT Indore PRO Cdr (retd) Sunil Kumar told TOI.
“NHAI will extend financial assistance to the interns of the institute. MoU is a part of a green initiative for both the organisations and it will set a model of future road development projects,” he added.
Vivek Jaiswal, Regional Officer, Bhopal and Manish Asiti, Director, NHAI-Indore project, also visited the IIT-Indore campus to discuss the details with director Suhas Joshi. During the meeting it was also decided that the institute will also extend test facilities in its laboratories. The MoU was signed in presence of the infrastructure dean, head of civil engineering and other senior officials of the institute.
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