the nsit has embarked on a mission to enter into tieups with foreign universities to be a truly global player says amit kr chandaone of the premier engineering colleges in the country the netaji subhas institute of technology in the capital has made rapid progress by churning out graduates in the emerging areas of technology programmes like electronics and communication engineering computer engineering instrumentation and control engineering manufacturing process and automation engineering and information technology at the undergraduate ug level and signal processing information systems and process control at the masters level have been hugely popular among the students and the nsit plans to add a few more programmes to its kitty at both the levels in the near future the director of nsit ranjit singh said the institute has received the necessary goahead from the delhi university to launch a new ug programme in biotechnology from this academic year the number of seats allocated for this programme will be 20 the all india council for technical education aicte has given approval for 60 seats however the delhi university settled for 20 seats the academic council of the du has laid down a condition that further increase in the number of seats is subjected to the progress made on the development of laboratories and physical infrastructure in this subject the institute plans to start two new courses at the masters level too the programmes m tech in mecatronics and m tech in electronics and automation have been approved by the aicte and the faculty of technology of the du it is now in the hands of the academic council of du for the final approval the institute plans to offer 18 seats in each programme singh remarked the institute plans to enter into collaborative arrangements with foreign universities for exchange of knowledge academic growth and financial profit the nsit plans to sign a memorandum of understanding with foreign universities for institutional collaboration exchange of faculty and students in various areas as well as joint projects in the emerging areas of technology singh elaborated we are looking at the possibility of entering into tieups with british universities and for this purpose we recently participated in the seminar on partnership in technical education held at the british council in association with the indian society for technical education at the seminar the british universities and the nsit made various presentations we plan to enter into a formal agreement once the modalities are worked out this will entail working out the marketing of joint education between the nsit and foreign universities for resource generation he added this will be made possible through signing mous with other governments who will be required to send batches of students to nsit and these batches will get training in the respective specialised areas these students will undergo training in various other programmes specifically tailormade for them or else they will be offered the be degree herethe institute is in the process of acquiring the deemed university status and