Professor Subrata Borgohain Gogoi Professor Ajanta Borgohain Rajkonwar Dr. Debajit Borah
The UK India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI) declared its result on the award of the research projects for the year 2018. A Project Proposal entitled 'Novel EOR Technique for the Depleated Oil Reservoirs of Upper Assam Basin with Simulated CO2 Capture and Sequestration' submitted by three faculty members of Dibrugarh University, Professor Subrata Borgohain Gogoi (Project Investigator) of the Department of Petroleum Technology, Professor Ajanta Borgohain Rajkonwar, Dean, School of Commerce and Management Sciences and Dr. Debajit Borah, Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics is among the eighteen projects awarded this year. The UKIERI 2018 received 138 proposals from across the country. The project partner under this project from the UK is from the University of Edinburgh. The concerned faculty members and the research scholars under the project from both the Universities shall be working at UOE and DU.
University of Edinburgh Prof. Xianfeng Fan
UKIERI was started in April 2006 with the aim of enhancing educational links between India and the UK. It has been recognised as a key multi stakeholder programme that has strengthen the educational relations between the two countries. UKIERI is funded from the UK by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Council, Scottish Government, Walsh Government and the Department of Economy; from India by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the UGC and the All India Council for Technical Education.
It may be mentioned that faculties from Dibrugarh University have been selected for this prestigious programme for the last three consecutive years.