IIT Roorkee Organises Outreach Event For Industries Under TechSarthi Initiative

As part of 175 years celebration, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) has organised an outreach event for industries in the Bhagwanpur Industrial Estate under its TechSarthi Initiative.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is currently celebrating 175 years of imparting technical education and research for the development of society. Amid this celebration, the engineering institute organised an outreach event for industries in the Bhagwanpur Industrial Estate under its TechSarthi Initiative.

Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee, highlighted the objective of the initiative and said, “Industry and academia often appreciate the need to work together. The TechSarthi initiative will seek to identify IIT Roorkee’s research capabilities which align with the industry requirements. It will provide opportunities for the two stakeholders to interact, thereby providing avenues to the industry for modernising and enhancing the impact of their business,” as reported by The Print.

About IIT Roorkee's Outreach Event

Members from Bhagwanpur Industries Association, IIT Roorkee and HDFC Bank gathered together for the event at Pulastya Resort, Bhagwanpur, Roorkee to conduct an outreach event for TechSarthi. This outreach event involved deliberations by IIT Roorkee faculty and Industry members on the industrial requirements to adopt technically sound solutions, gear up industrial growth, realize the objectives of going “Local to Global” and generate better employment opportunities.

Professors from IIT Roorkee talked about the latest advancements in engineering and technology and explained to industries how to adopt them. The IIT Roorkee faculty also assessed the current state of technology in the industry and proposed practical solutions to the problems raised by various industrial units to boost their overall efficiency.

TechSarthi Initiative Details

It was launched by Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dami on April 8, 2022. The objective of TechSarti is to provide technology-based solutions to all industries within a 175 km radius of IIT Roorkee. The TechSarthi team from IIT Roorkee included Prof Meenakshi Rawat, Prof Prabhat Mandal, Prof IndranilLahiri, Prof Varun Sharma, Prof Gaurav Sharma, Vishal Tiwari, and students from different engineering disciplines. 

Prof Shushil Kumar, while highlighting the details of the TechSarthi initiative, informed that under this initiative, the team of experts from IIT Roorkee would visit the industries to provide information on existing know-how and development of future technologies.

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