Himalayan Ecosystem Awantipora/IBNS: The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, and Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU's) under the Earth Observation Application Mission (EOAM) of ISRO for funding hydrological studies in glaciated and unglaciated watersheds of North-West Himalaya in the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIR), Roorkee, National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Jammu University, and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamipur are the other institutions that have also signed the same MoU.
The MoUs establish the roles and duties of the collaborating agencies in achieving the goals and objectives of the national project "Monitoring and Assessment of Mountain Ecosystems and Services in the North-West Himalaya (Phase-II)."
The IUST was represented at the MoU signing ceremony by the Vice-Chancellor Prof Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, who was joined by the heads of all the participating institutes.
During his remarks at the MoU signing event, Professor Romshoo expressed gratitude to ISRO for seeking the participation of IUST in the national project and assured the partners that IUST will make a significant contribution to attaining the project's goals.
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