University of Hyderabad (UoH) through the School of Engineering Sciences and Technology (SEST) has forged a partnership with the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) Limited, Hyderabad – a Navratna PSU through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed for a period of five years on Tuesday.
Development of technology to make green steel, technology development for the direct utilization of low-grade iron ore mines in the ironmaking process, technology development for the mine waste utilization and exploration of any other technical areas of mutual interests will be taken up as part of the agreement, said a press release.
UoH Registrar Devesh Nigam and chief general manager, R&D centre, NMDC, S.K. Jain signed on behalf of the institutes in the presence of vice chancellor B.J. Rao, NMDC director (production) Dilip Kumar Mohanty and others. Dr. V.G. Kotnur will be university coordinator and Vibhuti Roshan from NMDC.
