Tata Technologies Partners With RVCE To Launch Innovation Hub To Train Future Engineers – News18

Last Updated:April 11, 2025, 16:08 IST

Tata Technologies signed an MoU with RV College of Engineering to set up the Center for Invention, Innovation, Incubation & Training in Bengaluru. Tata will contribute 50 crores, RSST 10 crores.

Tata Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bengaluru’s RV College of Engineering on April 7th to establish the Center for Invention, Innovation, Incubation & Training. (CIIIT) Tata Technologies is set to contribute 50 crores to the facility, while Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust (RSST), which manages RVCE, will contribute around Rs 10 crore.

The collaboration is reportedly said to be the first of its kind in Southern India and aims to equip students with smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies. This MoU with the Bengaluru-based engineering institute comes months after the Tata Group partnered with the Indian Institute of Science IISc, to establish the Tata IISc Medical School in the city with a contribution of ₹500 crore.

CIIIT will house cutting-edge industrial infrastructure, smart manufacturing tools, automation technologies and specialized laboratories. This initiative by the Tata Group company is particularly significant as it seeks to bridge the gap between academic curricula and real-world industrial needs. The innovation centre aims to equip job-ready engineers, technicians, and skilled operators for today’s industrial settings.

Pawan Bhageria, President of the Education business at Tata Technologies, mentioned that the inaugural batch of students will undergo training in essential skills over the next 18 months, in keeping with the timeline for CIIIT to become fully operational.

‘In India, the demographic division is there. And today, with disruptive technology, most of the instructions have not kept pace with the curriculum which is required for the industry. So the key vision is to train manpower in a way which is relevant for the industry’, noted Bhageria.

President of the RVEI (Rashtriya Vidyalaya Educational Institutions) M P Shyam further underlined the purpose of the CIIIT and its goals ahead. ‘We will have top faculty and top CEOs from Tata Group coming and mentoring students. We will then have MSMEs try out products from the CIIIT. Good research papers will come from this Centre’ he added.