kanpur though conversion of premier hartcourt butler technological institute hbti into a technical residential university is in process but once this happens there will also be a change in its syllabus the roadmap for the same has been prepared the new syllabus will also include recommendations made by the top industrialists suggesting to include the topics in the course which are relevant according to industry needs for this purpose the executive council of the new university will nominate two industrialists as its members according to the hbti administration industryacademia partnership is necessary to provide benefit to both the research work in the institute will be carried out as per the need of the industry while the industry on the other hand will be able to use the developed technology in doing mass production of the same ak sharma deputy registrar hbti strongly advocated that industryacademia partnership is the need of the hour when research provides a solution to the problems of industry it does wonders while it gives useful experience to the students or research scholars the industry is also benefitted largely he said the work at the level of state government for making hbti into a varsity is in progress the ordinance is ready further after becoming a university hbti will provide world class facilities to the students as hbti has its brand name and is famous in the country even its alumni are happy to know that the institute is being made a university they have expressed hope that as a university hbti will provide better atmosphere to the students to do advanced research work prof pawan kumar goenka chairman board of governors iitchennai who is also the executive president in mahindra and mahindra group said that the top level institutes should do industry oriented research goenka who came to iitkanpur a fortnight back while talking to toi had said when industries will give push to the academic institutes to do research as per their need the students will also be benefited a lot whatever technology they develop will be of much use it will take the shape of a product the academiaindustry partnership will help in realising make in india project during his recent visit to iitkanpur president national university singapore prof tc chuan had said in foreign universities including in singapore the research work is done with the funds provided by the industry it is due to this reason that there are stateoftheart lab infrastructure when universities are funded by industries the former do not need governments funds he said