Education
IIT-BBSR to have a Centre of Excellence
A world class Centre of Excellence (COE) is coming up in the Research and Entrepreneurship Park of IIT, Bhubaneswar with the support of the state government. This new centre project would be related to virtual and augmented reality. The project work has already taken off with the joint contribution of Rs 2.5 crore from Susmita Bagchi and an equal amount -Rs 2.5 crore by the state government. An additional grant of Rs 2.5 crore has also been promised by Omkar Rai, director-general of Software Technology Park of India (STPI), for the COE at IIT. It is being planned that the COE will have various features including a world-class incubation facility, laboratory, highly focused courses along with education and skill development programmes.
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