Media Release

Mangaluru, Feb 12: SMVITM established in the year 2010 has been accredited by NAAC (A grade) and NBA recently. The college has been actively working to collaborate with industries and institutions to promote research, innovation and incubation related activities in the college to bridge the Industry - Academia gap. It has great expectations through this collaboration to provide opportunities for students of various streams to find projects and understanding of various industries for employment or entrepreneurship opportunities.

In order to meet this objective - SMVITM signed a MoU with KCCI - Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangaluru, on February 4, 2022, which constitutes the representatives of various businesses, trade and industry of DK district as their members. The MoU was signed by the president of KCCI Shashidhar Pai Maroor and Dr Ganesh Aithal, vice principal, SMVITM, Udupi.

In the presence of, P B Ahmed Mudassar; Nissar Fakeer Mohammad, secretary; AmithRamachandra and Ashith Balakrishna Hegde from KCCI, VidyaBhat, Dr Nagaraj Bhat, Dr Gnajanan Anne and Sudhir from SMVITM.

One of the focus areas for KCCI for the year 2021 - 22 is Industry Academia Interconnect where the Chamber will try to understand the requirements of industries and match it to the skill sets of the students. Based on this, they intend to formulate an SOP(Standard Operating Procedure) to ensure a match and marry of skills to industry requirements to recruit interns. This will help to make the students industry ready.In addition, it also looks forward to the support of KCCI to identify project ideas, funding through various govt. and non govt. sources and commercialization of products to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the region.