The National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on Thursday to collaborate in the fields of standardisation and conformity assessment.
Prasad Krishna, Director, NIT-C, and Pramod Kumar Tiwari, Director-General, BIS, signed the agreement, which will be effective for 10 years. The MoU envisages the setting up of a chair on standardisation and conformity assessment, titled BIS Standardization Chair Professorship, at the institute for which the bureau will provide financial help.
In order to create a corpus, the bureau will provide a non-refundable endowment of ₹1 crore.
