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The Milli Gazette
Published Online: Jan 27, 2012
Print Issue: 1-15 February 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Tamil Nadu’s Noorul Islam University (NIU) will soon be rigging up its own satellite and launching it too with government help, a university official said. The Rs.100-crore satellite will be used for agricultural applications and also facilitate higher education. The central government has given its go-ahead to the university to fabricate the satellite, which is planned to be launched in 2013, Noorul Islam University (NIU) pro-chancellor Faizal Khan told IANS. The NIU is located 25 km from the Kerala border into Tamil Nadu.
“We will make the satellite on our campus and get it ready for launch in 2013. The satellite will be used in the fields of agriculture and higher education,” Faizal Khan said. The satellite fabrication, he added, would be done under the watchful guidance of 18 former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists who now work at the Noorul Islam College of Engineering. “The approximate cost of the satellite would be close to Rs.100 crore. We will bring in Rs.15 crore, while the centre will chip in with the rest. This is certainly a huge achievement for our hard work and it is going to be a morale booster for all our students,” Faizal Khan added. NIU was established in 1989. It started off with just 40 students and now has an annual intake of 3,500 students. It has a state-of-the-art super speciality hospital and also runs a dental college.
MG News Desk
This article appeared in The Milli Gazette print issue of 1-15 February 2012 on page no. 6
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