NIT Warangal has been sanctioned 10 projects under the prestigious Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, worth about Rs. As part of the SPARC Project on ‘Real-time Forecasting of Floods Using SWAT model’ between NIT Warangal, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA, Prof. (Dr). Prof Jayakumar explained how the SPARC projects were allotted to the NITW. “Among the NITs in the country, NITW got the maximum number of SPARC projects. Prof. K. V. Jayakumar, Dean IR&AA is the institute coordinator of the SPARC programme.

Source: The Hindu July 04, 2019 05:14 UTC