Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launches Centres For Nanotechnology & Centre for Indian Knowledge System at IIT Guwahati

The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated two new state-of-the-art centres at IIT, Guwahati in Assam on November 21, 2021. These are: Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) and the Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS).
The CNT will work towards meeting future challenges and augmenting academic partnerships with industry in Nanotechnology.
The Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS) will focus on preserving, documenting and sustaining the knowledge that is unique to India, such as Indian classical music, Yoga, Sanskrit, traditional medicines, temple architecture, ceramic tradition and special agricultural practices of North-East India, among other things
The funding for the Centre came from Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)