The collaboration of VIT Chennai, IIT Madras and Queen Mary University of London is aimed at developing technologies with regards to air sanitization that are India centric.

The other objective behind the collaboration of IIT Madras with other two institutions is to develop guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus and tuberculosis.

In collaboration with Magneto Cleantech, a pioneering industry start-up based in Delhi, the testing and implementation will be done with real-time applications in various Indian environments.

COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than four lakh lives in India alone.

IIT Madras collaboration with VIT Chennai

TB killed over 4.45 lakh people In India during 2019 and is among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.

The target geographies for this project are India and its adjacent countries, say sources from IIT Madras.

The major factor working with this area is the high population and heavy urban pollution.

It is expected that this project, when successfully implemented, will benefit nearly 10 crore people in the Indian sub-continent, say sources from IIT Madras.

The project will be aimed at developing an experimental proof-of-concept of a revolutionary air filtration system using ‘Ultraviolet-C’ radiation.

Elaborating on the current status of the project and expected field deployment, Project Coordinator Professor. Abdus Samad, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, said IIT Madras always tries for collaborative research to solve societal problems.

‘When the Covid lockdown started in March 2020, we all got scared. As a researcher, we started thinking how to reduce the pain and distress caused by the airborne viruses.’

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IIT Madras collaboration – At the same time, the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK announced research funding for international collaborative works linking to industry, said Professor Abdus Samad of IIT Madras.

‘We immediately took action and started research on disinfecting air for indoor conditions.’

Professor Abdus Samad of IIT Madras further said various UVC solutions are present in the market but they lack the technical design rigor needed to ensure appropriate airborne disinfection and inactivation.

This has led to consumer confusion and mistrust, he said.

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IIT Madras collaboration with VIT Chennai – Highlighting the technical aspects of the project, Professor Nithya Venkatesan, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, said the design of this prototype will be based on multidisciplinary optimization, fluid dynamic analysis, and novel innovations in Ultraviolet-C (UVC) arrangements and sensors and controls developed by leading UK and Indian researchers. T

‘The team will also explore mechanisms for monitoring the performance of such systems in real-time environments using new-age bio-sensing and simulations through an IoT device.’

This project has major funding from Royal Academy Engineering (RAENG), UK, under the ‘Transforming System through Partnership’ scheme.

IIT Madras collaboration with VIT Chennai – Dr. Eldad Avital of Queen Mary University of London said designing any practical system needs a multidisciplinary team.

Eventually, we got experts from electronic and electrical system designers, microbiologists and fluid system designers, said Dr. Eldad.

Sars-Cov-2 spreads quickly and new variants are evolving as we have seen delta and other variants. We need to proceed to the right technology to contain, disinfect it, said Dr. Eldad Avital.

IIT Madras collaboration with VIT Chennai

‘Our solution will work, in general, for air disinfection for indoor conditions.’

This research will also involve a strong educational training element giving opportunities to students from both India and the U.K. to collaborate towards solving acute problems affecting societies worldwide.

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Professor Abdus Samad will lead the team for the whole system design and overall coordination.

IIT Madras collaboration – Professor Nithya Venkatesan will focus on electrical components and IoT design.

IIT Madras collaboration with VIT Chennai – The UK team is led by Dr. Eldad Avital from Queen Mary University of London, with Professor Clive Beggs of Leeds Beckett University being the project consultant.

Dr. Eldad will coordinate the UK team and will look after the fluid mechanics and mathematical modelling.

Professor Beggs (an Emeritus professor) will look after the microbiology and UVC.

The students and researchers working on the project are:

Ø Mr. Saket Kapse (Research Associate, VIT University -Chennai)

Ø Mr. Rishav Raj (MS, Fluid machines, IIT Madras)

Ø Mr. Mahesh Chaudhari (BTech, IIT Madras)

Ø Dr. Wasim Raza (Postdoc Fellow, IIT Madras)

Ø Miss Dena Rahman (MEng, QMUL)

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Additionally, the need to make bio-safety visible to drive awareness and performance-based engineering is critical, so the project will research advanced sensing technologies to make the bio-contaminants and their removal visible to end-users.

About IIT Madras

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) was established in 1959 by the Government of India as an ‘Institute of National Importance.’

The activities of the Institute in various fields of Science and Technology are carried out in 16 academic departments and several advanced interdisciplinary research academic centres.

The Institute offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes leading to B.Tech., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.S., and Ph.D., degrees in a variety of specialisations.

IITM is a residential institute with more than 580 faculty and 9,500 students. Students from 18 countries are enrolled here.

IITM fosters an active entrepreneurial culture with strong curricular support and through the IITM Incubation Cell.

This will be the exam for medical graduates to take up for gaining entry into post graduate courses in medicine across India.

Over 2,16,136 candidates are said to have appeared for NEET PG 2024. NEET PG 2025 Exam is also expected to witness same amount of registrations.

Registration usually starts a month or two before the exam date and the same stands likely correct in connection with NEET PG 2025.

NEET PG 2025 Exam is being conducted on 15 June 2025, this can mean NEET PG 2025 Exam registration is expected to start in February or March or April in 2025.

This is only a matter of guess work, the exact information about the NEET PG 2025 Exam schedule will be known once the exam registration commences.

Result for NEET PG 2025 Exam could be released on July or August 2025. The admission counselling is expected to start in August or September 2025.

This too is a matter of guess work as of now, the exact schedule will be known once the exam registration commences on the official website of the exam.

What is NEET PG 2025 Exam?

NEET PG is expanded into National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test Post Graduate, it is conducted once every year for providing admission into postgraduate medical courses in colleges located across India.

NEET PG 2025 exam is meant to be held in 2025 and is conducted by National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).

NEET PG 2025 exam registration is nothing but applying for the exam.

Who can take up Submit NEET PG 2025 exam application form?

Candidates who have passed graduation in medicine from a recognized educational institution anywhere in India can submit NEET PG 2025 exam application form.

The applicants also have to complete the required internship and register with state medical council or its national level equivalent organisation.

How to take up NEET PG 2025 Exam registration?

The process to take up NEET PG 2025 Exam registration is online, applications can be submitted at ‘https://natboard.edu.in/’ The process is mentioned below:

1. Type the URL mentioned above in the browser and submit it to allow the website to download.

2. After the website is available, candidates have to click Examinations menu and choose NEET PG

3. This will open webpage with URL ‘https://natboard.edu.in/viewnbeexam?exam=neetpg’

4. After knowing about the exam, candidates can click Application Link

5. Clicking above button open webpage with URL ‘https://cdn3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/1815/88570/Index.html’

6. After webpage with above URL opens, candidates can register to create an account with username and password.

7. They can come back to webpage with URL ‘https://cdn3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/1815/88570/Index.html’

8. After the above webpage opens, candidates can click LOGIN

9. This opens webpage with URL ‘https://cdn3.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/1815/88570/login.html’

10. After above webpage opens, candidates can login with username and password and take up NEET PG 2025 Exam registration.

Link NEET PG 2025 Exam registration is here 

The link for it will be activated at the appropriate time on the official website. The link will turn active about 10 or 20 days before the exam day. It can be downloaded as per the instructions below:

1. Type the URL ‘https://natboard.edu.in/viewnbeexam?exam=neetpg’ in the browser and submit it for allowing it to download.

2. Once the website is ready, the link for admit card has to be clicked.

3. After clicking the link, candidates have to enter their application number, date of birth and other details and submit them to obtain the hall ticket.

After Download

Candidates can appear for NEET PG 2025 exam with their hall tickets.

They have to pass the exam with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the next phase of admission which comprises counselling.

Counselling is the process where candidates can choose the course and the college where they desire to study the program of their choice.

Applicants must also have completed the required internship (CRI or CRRI) and have the required registration with NMC/Erstwhile MCI or State Medical Councils.

Candidates who have passed NEET PG 2025 exam with required qualifying marks can focus on counselling procedure.

Counselling is where candidates get to choose the college and the course they wish to study there.

The procedure will be conducted in more than one round, those who do not get a seat in the initial round can try in the subsequent rounds.

Students who get a seat can convey their acceptance and pay the fees and join the course at the college allotted to them.

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