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AIRTSC signs MoU with TISS- 4-Apr-2012
Guwahati: Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes (AIRTSC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to enhance the former's capacity building, training and research activities.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the MoU would help AIRTSC to build its capacity, training and research activities for further socio-economic development of ethnic tribes, SC, ST and OBC and empower them socially and economically in a big way.
"The expertise offered by TISS would help to provide the much-needed impetus to AIRTSC to enhance its capacity building, training and research activities to a great extent," he said.
The government was also tying up with Stanford University, USA in the field of documenting the life and rich cultural heritage of the ethnic and indigenous communities of the state.
"We need to have intensive research on the various facets of life of tribal communities and for that international collaboration with reputed institutions is a must," Gogoi said.
The MoU was signed by AIRTSC Director D Sarma and TISS Deputy Director Virginius Xaxa in the presence of Minister of State for Welfare of Plains Tribe and Backward Classes Rajib Lochan Pegu and other senior officials.
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