Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Chhotu Ram Varsity to start 2 new courses



By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 19
 Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Sonipat has decided to start two specialized courses of Post-graduate Diploma in Forensic Biotechnology and M.Tech. in Food Technology in the Department of Biotechnology.   
While stating this today, a spokesman of the University said that for  a grant of Rs 1.50 crore has been sanctioned to the Department of Biotechnology of this university to run these two new courses.
He said that for the course of  Post-graduate Diploma in Forensic Biotechnology sanctioned by the UGC, a total grant of Rs. 60  lakh and two  posts of faculty members have been sanctioned . This project will work for five years.  This course is a specialized course for the post graduate students for training them in the area of Molecular Biology and DNA exploration leading to the  study of crime and other forensic aspects.
He said that the other  course of M.Tech.   in Food Technology  is a very demanding and the students specializing in this area would be trained in various aspects of food science and technology. Keeping in view the expansion of food industry in and around Sonepat, the relevance of this subject becomes more important. The Department of   industries, Government of Haryana has, under the scheme of infrastructural development of the Central Government, sanctioned Rs. 75 lakh to develop  different laboratories for this course. Prof. J.S Rana, Chairman Department of Biotechnology would be coordinator for these two programmes. While describing the provisions under these two courses he said that both the courses are very important and innovative in nature. The students doing these courses would be trained in various practical aspects of the subjects and would be better employable.

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