Institutions like NITs are the engines of innovations: DRDO Chairman

793 B.Tech students were awarded degrees during NIT Andhra Pradesh convocation

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Andhra Pradesh held its second and third convocation jointly during which 381 candidates of 2016-20 batch and 412 candidates of 2017-21 batch were awarded degrees.

Upon graduation of the third batch this year (2021-22), NIT Andhra Pradesh will qualify to apply for Rankings under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). The Institute is working towards getting its programs accredited by national and international accreditation bodies such as the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

The Institute is also in process of initiating an MBA programme from the next academic year.

Karthik Reddy, a student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was the Institute Topper and Gold Medalist Winner of the 2016-20 Batch. B. Anusha, a student of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, was the topper of the 2017-21 Batch.

Delivering the Convocation Address, Chief Guest Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), said: “Innovation has become one of the important tools today. A product, unless it is innovative, is very difficult for the world to accept today. Academic Institutions like NITs are the engines of innovations... The seeds for innovations have to come right from the academic institutions. That is why we have started many courses in Defence Technologies in the Academic Institutes.”

He further added that India needs to develop a lot of technologies and for that, the core research of Technology Development happens in Academic Institutions in the entire world. “The Seeds of Technology Development have come from Academic Institutions...We are started, in more than 40 academic institutions in the country, the MTech Courses in Defence Technologies. We have also tied up with the Department of Higher Education where 500 PhD students are sponsored in DRDO laboratories to work on defence problems,” he said.

Delivering a report on the progress made by the Institute, Prof. C.S.P. Rao, Director, NIT Andhra Pradesh, said, “It is heartening to note that in these two graduating batches, the placement percentage has reached 78.82 per cent for the 2016-2020 batch and 84.80 per cent for the 2017 – 2021 batch respectively. NIT Andhra Pradesh has not allowed the pandemic to disturb our academic commitments. Our institute has quickly adapted to the changing education system and moved ahead with the academic activities without going to a hiatus.”

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