NHIDCL, NIT-Manipur sign pact on highway development
Source: Chronicle News Service / PIB
Delhi/Imphal, December 16 2022:
National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Technology (NIT), Manipur on December 14 through video conferencing to promote innovative technologies and find pragmatic solutions to the challenges posed in the construction of highways in extreme climatic conditions.
The MoU was signed between NIT Manipur director Prof (Dr) Gautam Sutradhar and NHIDCL managing director Chanchai Kumar.
NHIDCL, a CPSE under the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is seeking and promoting innovative technologies to find pragmatic solu tions to the challenges posed in the construction of highways located in hostile terrain and extreme climatic conditions.
In the same objective it signed MoUs with many prestigious institutes including IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur, CSIR-CRRI, NSDC, IIT Patna, NIT Srinagar, NIT Agartala, NIT Silchar, NIT Uttarakhand, NIT Nagaland, NIT Sikkim, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mandi and NIT Jote, Arunachal Pradesh during the current year 2022-23.NHIDCL had also previously signed MoUs with IIT Bombay & IIT Guwahati and is in further discussions with other IITs, NITs for signing of such MoUs.