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Bhubaneswar, July 10, 2024 (TBB Bureau): The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVNL) on Wednesday. The MoU was signed by Biswaranjan Pattanaik, Director of HR, on behalf of AVNL, and Prashanta Kumar Routray, Registrar of KISS-DU, on behalf of KISS, in the presence of Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT & KISS.
AVNL is a Government of India enterprise under the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence.
According to the MoU, both organizations will jointly work on a research park and incubation cell, consultancy, advisory services, education, community outreach and social responsibility projects, skill development programmes, collaborative research, sponsorship of research scholars, and short-term training programmes. AVNL will provide scholarships for the research period (not exceeding 4 years), aligned with Government of India schemes for doctoral degree students.
KISS and AVNL personnel can jointly or individually offer short-term training programmes lasting between one to two weeks to benefit students of KISS as well as AVNL employees.
Among others present were Ranjan Kumar Bal, General Manager of HR, AVNL Co; Deepak Kumar Behera, Vice Chancellor of KISS-DU; and Saranjit Singh, Vice Chancellor of KIIT DU.
