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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur gets $500,000 from Arun Sarin of Vodafone
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07-18-06, 02:27 AM
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Rep Power: 4  |  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur gets $500,000 from Arun Sarin of Vodafone Arun Sarin, chief executive officer of UK based Vodafone Group has donated $500,000 to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur would be using these funds to build an electronic research laboratory and related research purpose. S K Dube, director of IIT Kharagpur spoke on this generous gesture from one of his previous students: “It is a donation from Sarin’s personal fund and not from his company and he has already paid $250,000, with the rest to be given in future.” These funds would be received by the metallurgical and material engineering department of IIT-Kgp and they would use it to set up the Arun Sarin Electronic Research Laboratory. Sarin spoke on this donation: “Electronic materials have a very important role to play in technology up gradation.” |
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