NEW DELHI, Mar 01, 2022 (BSS) - Director of Indian Institute of Technology-
Delhi (IIT-Delhi) Professor Rangan Banerjee has emphasized on forging 
collaboration between IIT-Delhi and universities in Bangladesh.   

  During a meeting with Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran 
at the institute campus on Monday, he also proposed signing of a Memorandum 
of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh's universities to explore new areas of 
cooperation.  

  Dean of International Programme, other deans and faculties, and research 
fellows of IIT-Delhi attended the meeting, according to a statement issued by 
Bangladesh mission here this afternoon.  

  During the interactions, Professor Banerjee emphasized on enhancing the 
existing academic and research linkages between the universities of the two 
countries. He expressed their readiness to offer specialised masters and 
short courses to cater the need of industry and various mega projects of 
Bangladesh.   

  They expressed particular interests in technical textile, food processing, 
and infrastructure sector.  

  The High Commissioner proposed collaboration and exchanges with the state-
of-the-art laboratories of IIT-Delhi.   

   He highlighted on the importance of establishing linkages between academic 
research and industries, and eventually between the economies. He later 
visited several laboratories of IIT-Delhi.   

  During his visit at the IIT-Delhi campus, the high commissioner also 
interacted with the Bangladeshi students studying at the IIT-Delhi, the 
statement added.