IIT-Ropar to Award MTech in Defence Technology to Army Officers via MoA with Army Air Defence College, Gopalpur

Key facts

• IIT-Ropar signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Army Air Defence College, Gopalpur, under which it will award MTech degrees in Defence Technology to officers of the Indian Army.
• The agreement was signed by Prof Rajeev Ahuja, Director of IIT-Ropar, and Lt Gen Amit Rao, Commandant of the Army Air Defence College, Gopalpur.
• The MoA builds on a Memorandum of Understanding for Academic and Research Cooperation signed between Army Training Command, Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence (Army), and IIT-Ropar in December 2022.
• Army officers on the Long Air Defence Course will receive formal accreditation through the MTech programme, with IIT-Ropar faculty nominated as mentors for their dissertations and research projects.
• Officers will get access to IIT-Ropar's laboratories and infrastructure subject to prior approval, along with seminars and lectures by IIT-Ropar faculty in online and offline modes.
• Lt Gen Surinder Singh Mahal, Managing Director of IIT-Ropar Defence Research and Innovation Foundation, and Brigadier Rohit Das were also present on the occasion.