The Union Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public enterprises is tying up with IIT (Kharagpur) to establish a centre of excellence on advanced manufacturing for heavy industries. The same is being done under the Make in India initiative.
Babul Supriyo, Union Minister of state for Heavy Industries and Public enterprises said that “East has a dearth of centers of excellence as compared to west and southern India. Being a representative from the east, I am committed to bring the benefit of the centre schemes here”.
Joint Secretary of the department Vishvajit Sahay said that “through this centre, local industries would work with IIT K for the requirement of heavy machinery”.
Director IIT K said that “The centre would look into the current and future research and development needs of heavy industries. High quality standards would be maintained in the centre”.
“The institute will focus on R&D and share the same with the industries for commercialization. We will also promote the start ups”, the director added.
The centre of excellence will receive 80% of the funding from the centre and the rest has to be raised by the stakeholders.