IIT Jodhpur & DRDO to set up DIA-CoE

Jodhpur: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Jodhpur) has tied up with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for establishing a DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence at IIT Jodhpur on October 20. The MoU was exchanged between Prof. Santanu Chaudhary, Director, IIT Jodhpur, and Secretary, DRDO, at Gandhinagar in presence of Rajnath Singh, Union Defence Minister. Prof Shantanu Choudhary, Director, IIT Jodhpur said that, this MoU will create a strong relationship between IIT Jodhpur and the industry, under which technology will be developed for a selfreliant India in the defense sector. This will help in developing future technologies not only for the present India but for the whole world which will be driven to meet the practical needs of the modern battlefield.”