{"id":25935,"date":"2020-07-30T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2020-07-30T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:22:54","slug":"pfc-signs-agreement-with-iit-kanpur-for-training-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pfc-signs-agreement-with-iit-kanpur-for-training-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"PFC signs agreement with IIT- Kanpur for Training and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Power Finance Corporation (PFC), a PSU under Ministry of Power and country\u2019s leading NBFC, signed a MoA with Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur (IIT-K) for Training, Research, and Entrepreneurship Development in Smart Grid Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the MoA, PFC will provide financial assistance of Rs. 2,38,97,000\/- to IIT-K under its CSR initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of the pact is to provide support to IIT-K in developing infrastructure for research and development on smart grid technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of project, IIT-K will also provide training on smart grid technology to 90 participants and provide fellowship to 9 selected candidates for development of ideas on Smart Grid Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fellows will be assisted by Start-up Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) of IIT-K and encouraged to take up entrepreneurial activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Finance Corporation (PFC), a PSU under Ministry of Power and country\u2019s leading NBFC, signed a MoA with Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur (IIT-K) for Training, Research, and Entrepreneurship Development in Smart Grid Technology. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Under the MoA, PFC will provide financial assistance of Rs. 2,38,97,000\/- to IIT-K under its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[654],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-signing-of-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25937,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions\/25937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}