Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology (VESIT), Chembur, Mumbai has qualified in the list of 30 projects selected in the National Competition “Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge -2020” organized by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India in collaboration with C-DAC (Center for Development of Advance Computing), IIT Madras, MyGov and MakerVillage under “आत्मनिर्भर भारत अभियान”.

Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology (VESIT) has been a well-known educational institute where interdisciplinary research projects are carried out in collaboration with Depts. of Electronics Engineering, Instrumentation engineering, Information Technology etc.

VESIT encourages an interdisciplinary and collaborative research work culture leading to more innovative and stimulating learning environment and enforces new ways of thinking and doing, in ascertaining each individual’s knowledge and competences.

The project entitled “Calibration System for Nuclear Spectroscopy Applications” is the only project selected from Mumbai University which has also been awarded a total prize amounting to Rs 4,00,000/- Lakhs. Earlier in the same competition 100 projects were shortlisted out of more than 6000 projects proposed by different educational institutes, start-ups, R&D centres and Industries in India.

VESIT is the only institute in India whose 03 projects have qualified in the list of selected 100 projects and received funding of Rs 100000/- (one lakh) towards creation of start-up and project expenses.

The winner team comprises of Electronics Engineering research scholar working in the Department of Information Technology (Mrs. Asma Parveen I. Siddavatam) along with postgraduate student (Mr. Ajit Tukaram Patil) from Instrumentation and control, mentored by Dean Research and Development (Dr. P. P Vaidya) with an expertise in the field of nuclear electronics and instrumentation under the leadership of Dr (Mrs). J. M. Nair (Principal, VESIT). The proposed project was developed using Swadeshi Microprocessor designed in collaboration with CDAC and IIT, Madras.