IIT Guwahati to set up Joint Entrance Examination Centre in Bhutan

GUWAHATI: IIT Guwahati signed Terms of Reference (ToR) with Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), a move that is set to promote academic cooperation and exchange of teaching and research experiences between the two institutions. The TOR was signed during a visit by a six-member delegation from Sherubtse College, the Royal University of Bhutan, led by their president TsheringWangdi from October 28–29, 2019, a press release said. IIT Guwahati will set up a JEE centre in Bhutan to encourage students to join IITs in India, the release said.

Talking about the ToR, Prof. T.G Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, “We’re happy to sign the ToR with Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan. With this ToR, IIT Guwahati will set up a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) centre in Bhutan to encourage students from Bhutan to join the IITs in India. We also encourage students from Bhutan to undertake full-time programmes or work as research interns in various departments at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.”

The visiting delegation also met various others faculty and officials of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati which included a meeting with the Chairman of the Joint Entrance Examination Cell on the issue of setting up a JEE test centre in Bhutan.

On October 29, 2019 the delegation visited the Centre for Environment, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre for Education Technology, and the Centre for Energy. The delegation expressed a keen desire to send their faculty for higher studies in IIT Guwahati which all the departmental heads and centres heads welcomed, the release added.

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