Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Flowserve Corporate plans a new pump manufacturing facility in coimbatore

Flowserve Corp. on Tuesday reported the opening of a new pump manufacturing facility in Coimbatore, India. The company stated that the facility would support the company's existing Indian operations and provide pump products, for the oil and gas, power and chemical industries.

The company added that the pump facility was built on fourteen acres at an investment of nearly US$8.5 million.

Monday, April 09, 2007

TNAU identified to develop E-Course

With the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Delhi sanctioning Rs. 9 crores for modernising educational system and programmes,the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is channelizing its expertise on Information and Communication Technology to other agricultural universities in the Country.

Currently,TNAU has been identified as the Nodal University among all the 42 State Agricultural Universities and four Central Agricultural Universities in the Country for development of E-Course (Web lessons), its Vice-Chancellor, Dr C Ramasamy told reporters here.

For this purpose, ICAR has sanctioned Rs.1.6 crores under the National Agricultural Innovation Project to TNAU and under this, all 46 Universities would follow E-lessons that have been developed for B.Sc (Agri) by TNAU through the Centralised National Server, he said.

A special grant of Rs. 4 crores has been sanctioned for providing internet connectivity in individual rooms in Student hostels and the post-graduate scholars in Coimbatore and Madurai campus would be given internet connectivity.

For the undergraduate students hostels, connectivity would be provided in four campuses of Coimbatore, Madurai, Killikulam and Periyakulam for the time being and other campuses would be covered in a few months time, Ramasamy said.